TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan faces increasingly serious threats to its security from China and North Korea, a defence ministry report said on Tuesday, as ruling politicians call for the military to beef u…
Japan is vigilant against China's military buildup and North Korea's nuclear and missile development programs amid what it considers a worsening security environment, an overview of the Defen…
Inexperienced Chinese naval officers ran the risk of sparking a confrontation with Japan in the East China Sea, a leading Japanese military academic has warned. Speaking at the Griffith Asia Institut…
How Chinese expansion is fueling Japan's military growth Japan must learn to rely less on assistance from the United States and take personal responsibility of its territorial disputes, a visitin…
TOKYO - Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera is making final arrangements to visit the Philippines later this month and Hawaii in the United States next month in a bid to keep China in check, a Japanese…
Is war looming as Japan strengthens its military power and tensions escalate over disputed East China Sea islands? In the waters of the East China Sea, a daily show of aggression is displayed around …
BEIJING: Fuming over Japan's efforts to forge maritime security cooperation with India during the just-concluded visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a state-run Chinese daily on Thursday accu…
As the U.S. urges restraint, Asia's two great powers play politics with the past and court a crisis. A dispute over a few tiny, uninhabited rocks could be more dangerous than anything happening …