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...
A new report from a major United States think tank warns that China has achieved clear naval superiority in many categories of combat capability...
Even as nations around the world are struggling to respond to the challenge of the novel coronavirus pandemic, China has been making provocative moves...
Two official China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels intruded into Japan’s territorial waters in Okinawa near the Senkaku Islands on May 8, intimidating and chasing a...
Amid the expanding threat from the respiratory-like ailment caused by the novel coronavirus, China has been engaging in acts designed to provoke Japan, Taiwan, and...
China's coercive posturing for a short, sharp war with Japan focuses on surrounding the Senkakus with layers of Chinese power.
(First of Two Parts) On September 14, 2012, China dispatched six maritime surveillance cutters to the territorial waters of the Senkaku Islands for the...
China has a long history of distorting its own long history. While civilizations everywhere bend the historical narrative to their own purposes, justifying and even...
By The Sankei Shimbun The Japanese government plans to develop and produce micro radar satellites in an attempt to step up monitoring...
On January 11th, the Japanese government confirmed spotting a submerged Chinese submarine near Japan’s territorial waters as it entered the 24 nautical miles (44 km)...
Despite the brief hiatus in tensions between Japan and China over the Senkakus—islands historically owned and administered by Japan but in recent decades claimed by...