KAWASHIMA SHIN The year 2009, when the Democratic Party of Japan came to power, was also a pivotal year for foreign relations in East Asia. With the United States and Japan reeling from the 2008 ...

However, the Senkaku Islands were not included “in the islands appertaining to Formosa” in the treaty. Had the Senkaku, at that time, been recognized as “islands appertaining to Taiwan,” the U.S.

Second only to nuclear weapons development on North Korea and Iran, it is the most dangerous potential casus belli in the world today, and it likely to remain so indefinitely. It is a crisis between ...

BEIJING, Jan 30 (Reuters) - China's Coast Guard organised 134 patrols and deployed 550,000 vessels and 6,000 aircraft around the disputed Senkaku Islands in the past five years, state-run CCTV said on ...

During his trip to Japan, President Obama publicly affirmed long-standing U.S. policy that the bilateral security treaty applies to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands. China claims sovereignty ...

The Senkaku Islands, including the islands Uotsuri-jima, Kuba-shima and Taisho-jima, are a group of five islands and three reefs north of the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. Based on both ...

The Senkaku/Diaoyu islands have a long, complex, history of sovereignty disputes. This string of three uninhabitable islands and five rocks which, in total, amount to only 2.7 square miles in the East ...

In September a major diplomatic crisis erupted between China and Japan over a group of five uninhabited islets and three barren rocks located 120 nautical miles northeast of Taiwan, 200 nautical miles ...

Japan’s Ishigaki city assembly on Monday renamed an administrative area covering a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea, a move Beijing – which also claims the uninhabited islands – called ...

A fleet of four Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into territorial waters off the disputed Senkaku Islands on Wednesday, after Japan's Defense Ministry highlighted China as the country's most ...

The Chinese coast guard's daily patrols around the disputed Senkaku Islands have been interrupted for the first time in more than five months thanks to an approaching typhoon. The white hulls of ...