India-Japan defense cooperation has achieved significant progress through the recent rise in joint military exercises involving air, sea, and land forces.
“China sees its regulation of Japanese fishing vessels as a key stratagem” for controlling Japanese waters in the region, explains Professor Yoshihiko Yamada.
China’s actions against Japan are a signal to deter its pursuit of the free and open Indo-Pacific and dampen Tokyo’s growing global profile and regional voice.
Beijing’s immense economic stakes in extracting hydrocarbon resources from the East China Sea are directly linked to its self-professed territorial claims.
Japan should waste no time building up its deterrence as China and Russia — both worshipers of raw power — maliciously intrude into its waters and...
The prime minister’s visit follows Russia’s autocratic actions, as concern rises over China taking action against Taiwan, or in the Indian Ocean and South and East...
The residents of Higashikagawa City didn’t relish having the school staff from Beijing move to their town en masse.
What Tokyo critics who stay silent on the Beijing Olympics fail to recognize is that, unlike in Japan, no one in the PRC has the freedom...
Ukraine and Crimea show what Russia can do with Japan’s Northern Territories.
The call for “reclaiming lost historical Chinese territories” — reiterated at many central conferences of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and self-defined — is at the...
The maritime realm will be key to checking China’s imperial ambitions.
China’s strategy is one of working towards annihilating the adversary with its flocks of fishing fleets, while keeping the Chinese Coast Guard nearby and PLA-Navy ships...
