ISHIGAKI, Japan, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Hitoshi Nakama, 76, sees himself as a frontline defender of Japan's claims to disputed ...

Japanese authorities have quietly urged fishermen to avoid the disputed Senkaku Islands to prevent a potential escalation with China as regional tensions rise ...

A 76-year-old Japanese fisherman, Hitoshi Nakama, has long seen himself as a frontline defender of Japans claims over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. For years, Nakama and other ...

China Coast Guard vessel No. 31239 sails in the East China Sea near the disputed isles known as Senkaku isles in Japan and Diaoyu islands in China, in this handout photo taken and released by the 11th ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -A China Coast Guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a "rights enforcement patrol", the China Coast Guard said in a statement, as Beijing ...

Replicating its well-known salami-slicing tactic, China is steadily expanding its military activities around the disputed islands located in the East China Sea between Japan and China, escalating the ...

China sent coast guard vessels through waters near the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands amid escalating tensions over Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about Taiwan. Last week, Ms ...

China and Japan have traded accusations of airspace violations near a group of islets in the contested East China Sea, currently administered by the United States treaty ally. Tokyo severely protested ...

Some Japanese officials have been discreetly urging fisherman and local politician Hitoshi Nakama, and his peers, to steer ...