Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a pivotal role should Beijing order the invasion of Taiwan.
The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.
A Chinese woman who tried to stop the attack was killed and a Japanese mother and child were wounded in the eastern city of Suzhou last year.
China-Japan relations deteriorated sharply from ... light of the growing tensions in China-U.S. relations and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. During his tenure, Japanese Prime ...
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and closer ties between Moscow and Beijing, NATO has deepened its links with Japan and three other Indo-Pacific partners, Australia ...
More drills involving U.S., Japanese, and French naval forces are scheduled later this week in the Philippine Sea.
Japan barred the export of luxury goods after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But high-end grand pianos are still reaching ...