Long-standing tensions between Japan and South Korea have reached a symbolic peak over a Buddhist statue stolen from Kannonji ...

The China Coast Guard cutters Meishan and Xiushan slipped into port on Oct. 17, ending a dramatic 35-day deployment that brought them from the East China ...

Japan’s government said Thursday it is closely watching military activities by Russia following reports it conducted tests of submarine-launched missiles in the Sea of Japan, in its latest ...

In fact, Japan has had no land border with Russia for 79 years. But Japan has always faced Russia across the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, and until 35 years ago was at the forefront of the ...

North Korea, on Wednesday night, launched a long-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan, a day after South Korean officials reported the North was preparing to test-launch an intercontinental ...

Weather conditions differ between the Pacific side and the Sea of Japan side. While northern Japan has warm summers and cold winters with snowfall occurring in mountainous areas on the Sea of ...

Asia has the longest coastline of any continent, and the richest coral reefs on Earth. Its seas are connected by some of the ...

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 ...

Weather officials forecast normal or above-normal snowfall during the three months in areas along the Sea of Japan coast from northern to western Japan. They say some areas may have heavy snowfall ...

If you’re as excited about skiing bottomless powder snow as we are here at POWDER, then Japan should without a doubt be on your bucket list. Thanks to prevailing northwesterly winds that create ...

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.

The Sea of Japan (see below for other names) is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago ...