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Japan to bolster missile defense with U.S. X-band...
The X-band radar system at the U.S. Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo and Washington decided Feb. 24 to deploy a U.S. early-warning X-band radar system at a coastal base in Kyoto Prefecture to respond to missile launches by North Korea,...
Abe condemns China behavior, urges international...
Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yudachi (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has condemned as unacceptable China's recent moves in the East China Sea and said the world needs to know what Beijing is up to.
China, Japan engage in new invective over disputed...
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yudachi, shown at port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in April 2012, was targeted by fire-control radar from a Chinese warship in the East China Sea on Jan. 30 this year. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--China and Japan engaged on Feb. 8 in a fresh round of invective over military movements near a disputed group of uninhabited islands, fuelling tensions that for months ...
Japan: Hotline needed after Chinese warship...
The Asahi Shimbun
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...
ANALYSIS: Use of fire-control radar is viewed as a...
Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yudachi (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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.
China says probing Japan complaint about radar...
Chinese naval ships take part in an exercise in the Western Pacific Ocean on Dec. 7, 2012. The ships passed the contiguous zone around Japan’s southwestern islands to enter the East China Sea. (CFP)
BEIJING--China's Foreign Ministry said on Feb. 7 the government was investigating a complaint from Japan that a Chinese navy vessel aimed a type of radar normally used to aim...
EDITORIAL: China’s provocative acts are raising...
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yudachi, shown at port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in April 2012, was targeted by fire-control radar from a Chinese warship in the East China Sea on Jan. 30 this year. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera revealed Feb. 5 that a Chinese warship locked its fire-control radar on a Japanese destroyer operating in the East China Sea last month. In...
VOX POPULI: Chinese military must not play with fire
Some of the islets that belong to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Japanese expression "gan wo tsukeru" means to give someone the eye in a hostile way. It may be a coarse image, but the act of aggressively staring someone in the eye could...
China's use of fire-control radar ramps up tension...
Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yudachi sits in port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in April 2012. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan's territorial row with China over the Senkaku Islands entered a heightened phase of tension with Tokyo's Feb. 5 announcement that a Chinese warship directed fire-control...
Japan, China scrambled fighters during Jan. 19...
A Chinese fighter that was scrambled during tensions in the East China Sea on Jan. 19 (Provided by a person close to the Chinese military)
BEIJING--Tensions involving Japanese, U.S. and Chinese aircraft were escalating over the East China Sea on Jan. 19, when a Chinese frigate apparently trained a fire-control...
UPDATE: Japan protests to China after radar pointed ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera meets reporters on Feb. 5. (The Asahi Shimbun)
A Chinese navy vessel directed a type of radar normally used to aim weapons at a target at a Maritime Self-Defense Force ship in the East China Sea, prompting Japan to protest, ...
BIZ BRIEF: Denso unveils improved radar for safety...
Denso Corp. announced Nov. 21 it has developed a new and higher-performing millimeter-wave radar that helps to improve the responsiveness of automobile safety technology, such...
BIZ BRIEF: Fujitsu develops super-wide 3-D laser...
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced on Oct. 29 that it has developed a super-wide-angle 3-D laser radar with more than double the range of conventional radars, which it said...
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