China frequently shifts between warming and freezing relations with Japan, driven by its domestic issues, often using softer rhetoric while masking aggressive actions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/14/japan/are-china-japan-relations-warming/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #chinajapanrelations #senkakus #disputedislands #okinawa #china

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth agreed Friday during their first phone call to expand their nations’ joint military presence around Japanese islands in the East China Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/31/japan/politics/japan-us-defense-chiefs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #usjapanrelations #us #defenseministry #defense #senkakus

China Coast Guard vessels have been spotted near the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands for a record 353 days this year, as Beijing continues to ramp up its activities near the tiny islets that it also claims. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/29/japan/japan-senkakus-china-record/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #senkakus #disputedislands #eastchinasea

The real motivation behind Japan's whaling may lie in asserting its maritime sovereignty, as the country defends its exclusive economic zone amid territorial disputes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/19/japan/japan-whaling-maritime-sovereignty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #denmark #oceans #whales #whaling #denmarkjapanrelations #paulwatson #eez #senkakus

The U.S. decision to suspend the use of Taishojima as a firing range has had lasting consequences, undermining Japan's claims to the Senkakus and sending mixed signals about U.S. support for Japanese sovereignty over the islands. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/10/japan/senkaku-firing-range/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #senkakus #defense #us #usmilitary #sdf #usjapanrelations #china #chinajapanrelations #usjapanrelations

NHK said Tuesday that Kenji Sobata, senior director for international services, resigned the same day over controversial comments made by an outside staff member in Chinese-language news aired on its international and domestic radio channels. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/11/japan/nhk-china-comments/ #japan #nhk #senkakus #china #japanesetv

NHK President Nobuo Inaba has apologized after a newscaster said on the Japanese public broadcaster's Chinese-language news that the Senkaku Islands are Chinese territory. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/23/japan/nhk-senkaku-report/ #japan #nhk #china #chinajapanrelations #senkakus #disputedislands

The Mexican national is believed to have drifted to the island in a canoe from Yonaguni, Okinawa Prefecture, according to officials from the 11th Regional Headquarters of the Japan Coast Guard in Naha. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/18/japan/senkaku-mexican-man-rescued/ #japan #japancoastguard #senkakus

Two China Coast Guard ships entered Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the city of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/23/japan/china-coast-guard-senkakus/ #japan #senkakus #eastchinasea #defense #china #japancoastguard

China Coast Guard regulations allowing it to detain foreign nationals suspected of trespassing in waters it claims for up to 60 days took effect Saturday, stoking fears of escalation amid rising tensions in the disputed South and East China Seas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/15/asia-pacific/china-coast-guard-law-arrest/ #asiapacific #china #philippines #southchinasea #senkakus #chinajapanrelations #japancoastguard #chinacoastguard #disputedislands

The Japanese and Philippine governments have agreed to hold a “two-plus-two” security meeting of their top diplomats and defense chiefs in Manila on July 8, as the two countries warily eye China’s growing regional assertiveness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/11/japan/politics/japan-philippines-two-plus-two/ #japan #politics #philippines #philippinesjapanrelations #china #southchinasea #eastchinasea #senkakus #disputedislands #minorukihara #yokokamikawa

Japan lodged a protest against Beijing on Friday after four armed Chinese coast guard vessels entered waters that Tokyo considers its territory. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/07/japan/armed-chinese-vessels/ #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #senkakus #disputedislands #eastchinasea

Japan has spotted Chinese ships sailing near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for a record 158 consecutive days. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/27/japan/senkakus-chinese-ships/ #japan #senkakus #chinajapanrelations #china #disputedislands #japancoastguard #eastchinasea

The Ishigaki city government deployed a drone for the first time around Uotsurijima, one of the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, to take infrared images of the northern side of the islet. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/28/japan/politics/okinawa-conducts-survey-around-senkakus/ #japan #politics #senkakus #disputedislands #chinajapanrelations #okinawa

In his first-ever trilateral summit with the leaders of Japan and the Philippines, U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday reiterated Washington’s commitment to defending the Philippines from any attack in the South China Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/12/asia-pacific/politics/philippines-japan-us-trilateral/ #asiapacific #politics #fumiokishida #philippines #ferdinandmarcosjr #joebiden #philippinesjapanrelations #usjapanrelations #china #senkakus #eastchinasea #southchinasea #pla

Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force said Saturday that it had conducted joint training with two U.S. Air Force B-52 heavy bombers over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea, in what was seen as a show of force to both Beijing and Pyongyang. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/02/japan/politics/us-japan-joint-air-exercises/ #japan #politics #sdf #usjapanrelations #usmilitary #northkorea #missiles #satellites #nuclearweapons #china #senkakus

China Coast Guard vessels began last month to issue warnings for Japanese Self-Defense Forces planes to leave airspace over and around the Japan-controlled, China-claimed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/04/japan/china-ships-warn-sdf-over-senkaku/?utm_content=buffer271cf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #chinajapanrelations #sdf #senkakus #disputedislands

China plans to keep its ships near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea every day in 2024 as leader Xi Jinping has called for bolstering Beijing's claim over the islets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/30/japan/china-daily-senkakus/?utm_content=buffer55837&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #senkakus #pla #xijinping #fumiokishida #eastchinasea

New Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi has vowed that he will negotiate "tenaciously" with Beijing to solve a bilateral row over the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/20/japan/politics/new-japan-ambassador-to-china/?utm_content=bufferddfa0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #politics #kenjikanasugi #chinajapanrelations #china #senkakus #fukushimano1