East China Sea

The unusual government decision to publicize the moves of foreign submarines near Japanese territorial waters is not serving as a deterrent as initially hoped for.

SEOUL—Calm responses and increased private-sector exchanges are needed to avoid conflict and repair Japan’s worsening relations with China and South Korea, participants at...

The Obama administration's strategic shift to Asia is a smart policy, but its China blind spot could be its undoing, writes defense and security journalist Trefor Moss in The...

Japan, China, South Korea, and Taiwan all share the East China Sea, yet there are disputes over the location of maritime boundaries and territorial sovereignty. Resolving these ...

The United States has many reasons to be concerned about Chinese cyberattacks, but given that China and its allies proposed in 2011 a surprisingly reasonable draft U.N....

The new Abe government may offer a dream of a pragmatically conservative Japan that restores its economic health through freer trade and is a reliable security partner in East...

The lack of progress in relations with China stands as the single largest vacuum in President Obama’s generally successful foreign policy, writes Fareed Zakaria, a Washington ...

Japan's defense minister has said actions by a Chinese frigate that aimed a weapons-guiding radar at a Japanese warship in the East China Sea last week "likely constituted" a...

The global standard of thinking is that locking a fire-control radar on a target is tantamount to a "simulated attack," a senior Defense Ministry official said.

It seems to me that, with his conservative national security credentials, Shinzo Abe’s election was a mixed blessing because the prime minister is confronted with a national...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will emphasize strengthened economic ties with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia next week, but his trip to Southeast Asia will also give him a chance...

Japan’s move to nationalize the Senkaku Islands (known as the Diaoyu islands in China) in September invited a vehement protest from China, which also claims the group of...

BEIJING--China provided the United Nations with detailed claims to waters in the East China Sea on Dec. 14, apparently padding out its legal argument in an ongoing territorial...

Relations remain strained between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands (known as Diaoyu Islands in China) in the East China Sea. To get some idea of where this dispute may...

The dispute over the Senkaku Islands (known as Diaoyu in China) between Japan and China—the third- and second-largest economies in the world—is casting a pall over the...