Alarm is growing about the burgeoning threat posed by Chinese maritime incursions in Japanese waters near the Senkaku Islands and in other parts of the region....
On the night of April 1, 1945, the Awa Maru was sunk in the Taiwan Strait by the submarine USS Queenfish. With poor visibility and only...
~~ ~Tokyo increases in shipbuilding and introduces an alternate crew system amid the Chinese Navy’s rapid expansion of maritime capability~ Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense...
A Quiet Hope The Japan-U.S. alliance is arguably the most important bilateral alliance in the world. It is also arguably the least well understood....
One of the important aspects of the growing India-United States bilateral relationship is the maritime ties between the two. In July, eight Indian and American...
Minamitorishima, the easternmost tip of Japan, floats in the Pacific Ocean about 1800 kilometers away from the main island of Honshu. The small island,...
Even as nations around the world are struggling to respond to the challenge of the novel coronavirus pandemic, China has been making provocative moves...
“We need Japan. We need the Japanese Navy to protect the vast Pacific Ocean. Japan is the only country which can protect the Pacific...
The near-permanence of the state of flux and transformation which surrounds the Indo-Pacific region brings its own set of opportunities and challenges. For these,...
The Japanese government is considering dispatching Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) vessels and planes to the Middle East to help ensure safe navigation near the Strait of...
In this valentine to Japanese-American maritime relations, author Agawa Naoyuki traces the process by which bitter enemies during World War II developed into friends....
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo was reelected to a second term in office as the Southeast Asian nation’s top political leader, in a one-on-one contest against...