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 ...

The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a rare and provocative move as the Trump ...

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 East Sea. In 2024, Netflix acknowledged that it had “mislabeled” the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group joined warships from Japan and South Korea for a four-day exercise in the East China Sea ...