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BEIJING/TOKYO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - China and Japan gave conflicting versions of a maritime confrontation involving their coast guards and a Japanese fishing vessel around the disputed Senkaku Islands on ...

BEIJING — China called Japan’s plan to deploy missiles on an island near Taiwan a deliberate attempt to “create regional tension and provoke military confrontation” on Monday, as a diplomatic dispute ...

Japan’s defense minister, visiting a military base close to Taiwan, said plans to deploy missiles to the post were on track as tensions smolder between Tokyo and Beijing over the East Asian island.

A China coast guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a "rights enforcement patrol," the coast guard said in a statement, as Beijing ramps up tensions with ...

According to Hawaiian legend, the first Japanese to set foot in Hawaii were crew members of a Japanese ship that had been blown off course by a typhoon, and made landfall at Maui during the 1300s.

Chinese coast guard vessels ended a record presence in waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands on Sunday, according to the Japanese coast guard. The last Chinese vessel left the contiguous zone ...

TOKYO(AP) — Heavy rain from a typhoon on Thursday battered a chain of Japanese islands south of Tokyo and the government urged residents to watch for landslides and flooding. Kyodo news agency ...