By Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, Reporter THE PHILIPPINES and Japan’s top military officials met on Monday to discuss defense cooperation and efforts to keep regional peace, including potential joint ...

The posts, isolated from the rest of the world behind the Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Internet Firewall”, advocate the ...

THE PHILIPPINE presidential palace on Thursday urged China to respect Manila’s freedom to boost military ties with Washington and stop meddling in its foreign affairs to keep regional peace.

And others are scouring ancient maps and legends for justification to do so. Taiwan. Okinawa. Even the Philippine home island of Palawan ... was used by Imperial Japan to justify its attack ...

Emboldened by a law allowing wider weapons use, the Chinese Coast Guard has repeatedly and more brazenly tested Japan’s resolve to avoid escalating tensions around the Senkaku Islands in the ...

President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...

The Chinese coast guard on Monday set a record for the longest continuous presence inside territorial waters claimed by Japan around the Senkaku Islands, a disputed cluster of islets in the East ...

With China’s becoming increasingly assertive over its claims to the Senkaku Islands held by Japan, defense of the southwest islands of Japan has become one of Japan’s key defense focus with ...