At a regular news conference on Feb. 11, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated that the “hydrometeorological buoy” had completed its task at the site near the Senkaku Islands, known as the ...

Five Diet members inspected areas around the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, drawing a rebuke from China, which also claims the uninhabited islets. “We looked at the status of ...

On Tuesday, the coast guard officials had said that the buoy was spotted in the waters northwest of Okinawa Prefecture's Senkaku Islands, which are located in southern Japan. However, the ...

Tokyo: Japan Coast Guard (JCG) on Wednesday confirmed that a Chinese buoy that was installed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is no longer there. The buoy had been floating in the area ...

Since fiscal year 2013, when China established an Air Defense Identification Zone over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, the number of scrambles has exceeded 400 every year.

Japan is facing mounting security challenges in the Nansei Islands as China’s military activities continue to expand. The island chain, which includes Okinawa and extends southwest to Yonaguni, is at ...

This article originally appeared at the Asia-Pacific Journal. On September 7 Japanese patrol boats intercepted a Chinese fishing trawler near Kubashima, one of the Senkaku [Chinese: Diaoyu] Islands in ...

Japan on Wednesday lodged a protest with China through a diplomatic channel after four Chinese coast guard ships were spotted entering Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the ...