The U.S. military landed in hot water with Japanese officials on Thursday when a spokesman used the term “East Sea” to refer to the wedge of sea between Japan, Russia and the Korean peninsula ...

Japan’s defense ministry said on Friday it scrambled fighter jets after two Russian IL-38 information-gathering aircraft were spotted flying back and forth between the Sea of Japan and the East ...

A ruling Saenuri Party lawmaker called for the changing of the official Korean name “East Sea” to “East Sea of Korea,” ...

Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it ...

The country’s long battle for co-use of the names “East Sea” and “Sea of Japan” is over as the IHO decided to adopt a new numerical system. New developments show Jakarta working to break ...

Pyongyang launched missiles toward the East Sea just three days after it fired ... in step with its military alliance with Washington. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told ...

ONOMICHI, Japan -- In late October, as the autumn leaves were turning yellow, I sat on the deck of a ferry crossing part of the Seto Inland Sea, a 440-kilometer-long body of water that separates ...

Heavy snowfall continued Wednesday along the Sea of Japan coast as the season's strongest cold front disrupted rail services in central Japan and air traffic, with the weather agency warning of more ...

Controversy over the issue of the name of the waters between Korea and Japan has been ongoing for decades. The U.S. state of Virginia passed "East Sea" bill in 2013 to require all textbooks at ...