Tokyo: Japan has initiated decisive steps to curtail the aggressive Chinese activities in the East China Sea, since the last few months. As part of the plan, the region in which the Senkaku Islands are located has been renamed. The decision will be implemented from the 1st of October, and Japan clarified that this change […]
Tokyo: Japan, who is taking rapid steps to increase its military might, has initiated the development of an anti-aircraft carrier missile. Japan will be equipped with this super-advanced missile in the next few years. A leading Japanese newspaper reported this by quoting sources in the Japanese defence ministry. The Chinese naval movements are on the […]
Canberra: “In the coming times, the US influence in the Indo-Pacific sector could wane. In such a scenario, it will not be possible even for the United States to defend its allies. If this threat is to be averted, Japan and Australia have to assist the United States, by increasing their military investment and deployment […]
Tokyo: The inciting flights of the Chinese fighter and bomber jets, intruding into the Japanese airspace, have been increasing in the ‘East China Sea’. Two days ago, Chinese bombers and surveillance aircrafts intruded in the Japanese airspace, creating a security threat for the Okinawa islands. In retaliation, Japan scrambled fighter jets to drive the Chinese […]
Tokyo: Japan has taken one more aggressive step to retaliate against the Chinese intrusion in the East China Sea. With the establishment of the ‘Crisis Response Headquarters’, Japan has warned that intrusion of the Chinese patrolling vessels will not remain unanswered. Four patrol vessels of the Chinese coast guard intruded into the Japanese territory, in […]
Tokyo: A leading Japanese newspaper has claimed that the United States has jeopardised the Japanese security by withdrawing from the historic Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia. The United States can, in the next few months, increase the deployment of missiles in the Pacific Ocean. The newspaper claimed that in such a scenario, the […]
Washington: James Inhofe, Senior Senator and Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, of the US Congress, made a crushing accusation ‘China is preparing for the third world war building artificial island groups in the South China Sea and militarising them.’ At the same time, Inhofe said that the massive Chinese military movements in the South […]
Tokyo: Japan has criticised China’s excavation in the East China Sea. The country warned China saying, ‘The Chinese excavation in the region despite the marine limits not being defined between China and Japan, amounts to an act of provocation against Japan’. There is a significant dispute between Japan and China over the marine limits in […]
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the defensive posture taken by Japan since the Second World War, 70 years ago, will be changed. The Japanese Prime Minister warned that Japan cannot afford to continue with its defensive stance in view of the rising threat from China and North Korea in East Asia. A […]
Tokyo: Japanese government has begun the establishment of a fully equipped army base in the ‘East China Sea’, which lies between China and Japan on the ‘Ishigaki Island’ near the disputed Senkaku group of islands. Anti-missile systems, anti-aircraft and anti-warship missiles, radar systems and army units will be deployed at the base. The media informed […]