The maneuvers over international waters in the Pacific last weekend prompted Japanese officials to warn China not to repeat ...

Japan has expressed serious concerns over a series of extremely close aerial encounters with the Chinese military. But ...

China has deployed both of its aircraft carriers—CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong —to the east of the first island chain since ...

the Chinese Foreign Ministry firmly rejected Japan's criticism, stating that it violated the "one-China principle" and emphasised that China's military actions were legitimate and necessary to ...

Japan has also increased its military budget and the tempo of its ... people accept that we can’t just passively allow China’s actions.” It’s not just Japan taking note.

Separately, new Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Japan needs to balance dialogue and deterrence in dealing with China because of its increasingly assertive military actions and ...

On his first visit to China since becoming Japan’s top diplomat earlier in 2024, Mr Iwaya told Mr Wang that Tokyo was “closely monitoring the Taiwan situation and recent military developments ...

A Chinese fighter jet came within about 150 feet of a Japanese naval reconnaissance plane over the weekend, the Japanese ...

TOKYO – Japan should grow its security cooperation ... nations has become increasingly suffused with a military edge. The yearly China Security Report 2025, which was released on Dec 17 by ...

Japan has expressed serious concerns to Beijing through diplomatic and defence channels after a Chinese fighter jet from the aircraft carrier Shandong made “abnormal approaches” to a Japanese ...