China plans to keep its ships near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for 365 days in 2024 as leader Xi Jinping has called for bolstering Beijing's sovereignty claim over the islets, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday. During a rare visit by Xi on Nov…
Tokyo secretly asked Beijing not to make territorial claims to the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea to avoid friction ahead of the Japanese emperor's visit to China in 1992, according to to Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on Dec. 20
New Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi vows that he will "tenaciously" negotiate with Beijing to solve a bilateral row over the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.