Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

In its 2025 white paper, Japan's Defense Ministry said the world faces the most perilous security environment since World War ...

Japan had initially planned the F-35Bs to support amphibious operations, but the initial six jets missed the target March ...

Japan's defense officials have warned China's intensifying military activities could "seriously impact" its security, while ...

A Taiwanese fishing boat (right) is blocked by a Japanese coast guard vessel near the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 25, 2012. Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP/GettyImages.

For all the speculation of quick military action by China to achieve its foreign policy goals, Beijing’s track record has been more akin to peeling an onion, slowly and deliberately pulling back ...

The Senkaku Islands were formally incorporated into Japanese territory in 1895, an ownership that was reaffirmed both after World War II in the San Francisco Peace Treaty and in 1972 by the ...

If China were to launch a military takeover of the Senkaku Islands, as Russia has been trying to do in Ukraine, Japan would exercise its right to self-defense in accordance with international law ...

How to make sense of the dispute between Japan and China over some half a dozen uninhabited islets in the East China Sea known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and the Senkaku to the Japanese?

A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in the East China Sea, in this photo taken on ...

I would like to highlight some errors found in your editorial about the Senkaku Islands, which are an integral part of Japanese territory ("The Other China Sea Flashpoint," Review & Outlook, Sept ...

A video taken by two municipal assemblymen of Okinawa Prefecture, when the pair snuck onto one of the deserted Senkaku islands earlier this month finally gives curious trackers a rare peek at the ...