A freeze and separating ownership and economic rights could help resolve the China-Japan dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands.

JAPAN’S plan to transfer Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Philippines could enhance Manila’s coastal patrol and maritime defense capabilities, analysts said at the weekend, underscoring the ...

Japan is also locked in a maritime dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited island group in the East China Sea administered by Tokyo and claimed by Beijing as the Diaoyu Islands.

The record-breaking intrusion happened as Japan's foreign minister met with senior counterparts in China over the weekend.

While China is engaged in a tense border standoff with India high in the Himalayas, a small group of islands thousands of miles away could be another military tinderbox waiting to explode.

Japan and China have been in a long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands that Beijing calls the Diaoyu.

To secure a meeting with Xi, Japanese PM Abe caved to China’s long-standing demand on the East China Sea dispute.

China has begun construction of a new structure in waters between China and Japan in the disputed East China Sea, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, adding it has lodged a protest with ...

Japan said China is building a 20th structure in a disputed, energy-rich area and called for a return to negotiations.

Quantifying the changes in China’s and Japan’s behaviors in the disputed area from 1970 to 2015 reveals six key dynamics: The East China Sea dispute began over oil and gas resources but switched ...

Japan and China on Thursday mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 normalization of their ties, but there isn’t much of a celebratory mood.