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

Japan and China are blaming each other after Tokyo raised concern that a Chinese fighter jet came dangerously close to Japanese reconnaissance planes. Japan says the Chinese fighter jets took off ...

Attacks on Iranian nuclear sites have thrust the US into the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. President Donald Trump warned further US intervention was possible as the world awaits an ...

Chinese aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating further from home shores and in greater strength than ever before, ...

A Chinese aircraft carrier group entered Japan's economic waters over the weekend, before exiting to conduct drills involving fighter jets, Tokyo's defense ministry said Monday.

TOKYO — Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific ...

Tokyo has complained to Beijing after a Chinese fighter jet tailed a Japanese patrol aircraft over the weekend, flying as ...

Beijing accused Tokyo of "intruding" into the training area of ... to unilaterally change the status quo by (China's) force." Yoshimasa Hayashi, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, said on Thursday ...

The two Chinese carriers currently in the western Pacific employ the older “ski-jump” launch method for aircraft, with a ramp ...

Japan has accused China ... to be a wire into the waters in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) 270 kilometres east of Okinotori island,” government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday said Japan will keep communicating ... a “political message.” China routinely sends ships and planes into areas surrounding Taiwan ...

Japan has accused ... to be a wire into the waters in Japan’s exclusive economic zone” 270km (167 miles) east of Okinotori island, government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters.