Tokyo and Beijing have given different accounts of the clash as relations between the two countries continue to sour following comments made by Japan's prime minister about Taiwan.

China's Coast Guard said on Tuesday that a Japanese fishing vessel had illegally entered the waters of the Diaoyu Islands - which Tokyo calls the Senkaku Islands. China claims them as their territory, ...

Last month Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, said that an invasion of Taiwan could cross the threshold that requires a ...

Diplomatic crises often change the stakes for each, and for the Japanese, the consequences of this crisis are multifaceted.

Since the Nixon administration, the United States has taken the position that territorial sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands was to be decided by the parties involved — Japan, China and Taiwan. From ...

China, Japan Give Conflicting Accounts of Confrontation Around Senkaku Islands BEIJING/TOKYO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - China and Japan gave conflicting versions of a maritime confrontation involving their ...

Tokyo, Aug 6 (efe_epa).Tokyo, Aug 6 (efe_epa). — Japan lodged a protest Saturday against China after detecting more than 200 Chinese vessels in the waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, the ...

The primary security challenge for Japan today is China’s behavior over the disputed Senkaku Islands (known in China as the Diaoyu Islands). In the fall of 1968, the United Nations Economic Commission ...

TOKYO, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Japan's education ministry has revised guidelines for teaching high school students the disputed Senkaku Islands and the smaller Takeshima islets are "integral parts of ...

The Japanese policy debate on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands is heating up. China’s Coast Guard Law, passed in January, stimulated nationalist reactions in Japan. Hinting at the possibility of using the ...

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? In a Nov.

First, during the meetings, it became apparent that at least some media outlets in the West haven’t been sufficiently clear about current Japanese policy. Tokyo’s longstanding position has been that ...