By Mark Buckton - Taipei When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 it did more than redraw the ...

Before dawn on a December morning in 2025, Japanese air defenses tracked an unusual formation: Russian and Chinese long-range ...

Chinese and Russian warplanes flew around Japan’s southern islands, following a course taken days earlier by China’s first aircraft carrier, prompting Tokyo to scramble fighters amid rising military ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Analysts say China’s latest military exercises are aimed at deterring closer US-Japan security ties ...

A Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence surveillance aircraft was observed flying over the Sea of Japan near Japan Oct. 25, 2025. Japan’s Joint Staff Office photo Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence ...

The future F-35A jet squadron on Hokkaido will be Japan's fifth unit operating the stealth aircraft, the defense ministry ...

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...

Japanese lawmaker Muneo Suzuki has said that he conveyed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's stance on Japan-Russia relations to Moscow during his trip to Russia. At a press conference in Moscow on Friday ...

For Japan, the Sino-Russian alignment in wartime narratives is more than a contest over memory – it generates real geopolitical effects. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left), Chinese President Xi ...

Russia has continued to project military power in the Far East near Japan—a key United States ally—by conducting missile drills and deploying a naval flotilla that included a submarine. Japan's ...

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. The scandal surrounding Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories (the name for the southern part of the Kuril Islands in Japan) Affairs Hitoshi Kikawada, who ...