The China Coast Guard (中国海警局, CCG) is reportedly the world’s largest coast guard. Knowledge of its background and organizational structure is helpful to understanding the...
On June 22, the Ishigaki Municipal Assembly approved a resolution renaming an area it administers that includes the Senkaku Islands. The assembly made the...
China’s plan to seize Japan’s Senkaku Islands and take control of the East China Sea has entered the final stage. On May 8, four...
More than 10 years have passed since the 2009 premiere of the Oscar-winning film The Cove, which is critical of the small cetacean fisheries (commonly...
Author Richard J. Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has combined his impressive knowledge of Japanese...
Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn being frog-marched from his private jet to the Tokyo Detention Center — Japan’s equivalent of a Chinese “black prison”...
The Sankei Shimbun The Japan Coast Guard has been engaged in gathering topographic data on the sea floor in the vicinity of...
September 11 marked the 5th anniversary of the nationalization of the Senkaku Islands. But the confrontations between Japan and China made local fishermen cannot approach the...
In July 1937, Amelia Earhart, American aviator lionized for her bravery, and navigator Frederick Noonan left New Guinea, then a territory of Australia, for the tiny United States-owned...
“We have nothing but apprehension since such a vehemently anti-Japanese president has won.” Those close to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lamented on the...
After Kishida addressed the US Congress, the three leaders, met in a tripartite summit focused on China's threatening stance in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
The National People's Congress in China is holding its annual political conference from March 4. Join us to follow its expected key themes and priorities.