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DISPUTED ISLANDS

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 24, 2019
China defense white paper singles out Japan over security shift and blasts U.S. for undermining global stability
China has singled out Japan for its shifting security policies and lambasted the United States for undermining global stability, noting rising strategic competition among major powers, in its first defense white paper in seven years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 23, 2019
Welcome ... to contested island: Philippines eyes tourism for islet in bid to bolster South China Sea claims
The Philippines is considering inviting tourists to its biggest and most strategically important outpost in the South China Sea as part of efforts to assert its claim to sovereignty over some of the world's most contested islands.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 20, 2019
Vietnam says Chinese vessel violated its sovereignty in South China Sea, tells Beijing to remove ships
Reuters — Vietnam on Friday accused a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts of violating its sovereignty and demanded that China remove the ships from Vietnamese waters.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 13, 2019
Abe avoids sticky Iran, territorial issues in campaign speeches for Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to be avoiding discussing Iran and Japan's territorial dispute with Russia in his campaign speeches for the July 21 House of Councilors election.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2019
China denies U.S. accusations of South China Sea missile tests
China's Defense Ministry on Friday denied U.S. accusations that the Chinese military had recently carried out missile tests in the disputed South China Sea, saying instead that they had held routine drills that involved the firing of live ammunition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 3, 2019
Pentagon calls Chinese anti-ship missile test in South China Sea 'disturbing'
The Pentagon has blasted as "disturbing" a Chinese missile launch from its man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, saying that the test was meant to intimidate other claimants to the strategic waterway.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 29, 2019
Abe and Putin upbeat on bilateral ties, but progress on territorial dispute continues to elude
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet but fail to reach any major breakthrough in the long-standing territorial dispute.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 12, 2019
China's Senkaku Islands ambition
China aims to establish a situation of de facto co-administration of the Senkakus as a stepping stone to vying for sole administration at some point in the future.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2019
Japan's largest warship joins U.S. carrier for military exercises in disputed South China Sea
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo helicopter carrier has joined the United States' sole forward-deployed aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, in joint military exercises in the disputed South China Sea, the MSDF and U.S. 7th Fleet said in separate statements Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2019
Chinese aircraft carrier sails between Okinawan islands
The Defense Ministry said Tuesday that China's sole operating aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, had passed through the Miyako Strait between the island of Miyako and Okinawa's main island as it ventured into the Pacific that morning.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2019
U.S. to sell 34 advanced surveillance drones to allies in South China Sea region
The Trump administration has moved ahead with a surveillance drone sale to four U.S. allies in the South China Sea region as acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Washington will no longer "tiptoe" around Chinese behavior in Asia.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 1, 2019
Lawmaker Hodaka Maruyama's 'war' gaffe puts spotlight on disputed isles
Diet lawmaker Hodaka Maruyama was kicked out of opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai last month over remarks he made during an exchange excursion to one of the Russian-controlled islands off the coast of Hokkaido that Japan claims as its own. Other opposition parties have demanded he resign and the ruling...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 31, 2019
Russian and Japanese foreign ministers fail to make breakthrough on island issue in Tokyo talks
Progress in the long-standing territorial dispute over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido remained elusive during a meeting between Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 23, 2019
U.S. Navy sends ships through Taiwan Strait for eighth time in nine months
The U.S. Navy has again sent ships through the Taiwan Strait, making transits of the waterway increasingly regular amid growing economic and military acrimony between the United States and China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 20, 2019
U.S. sends warship near South China Sea flash point as Beijing and Washington spar over trade
The U.S. Navy has sailed a warship near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, a strategic flash point in the South China Sea claimed by China, in a move expected to stoke anger in Beijing as the world's two biggest economies remain embroiled in a trade war.

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