CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Hitoshi Nakama says watching over the Senkaku Islands is part of his job. ... Other than some feral goats, the islands have no inhabitants.

The goat-infested island is part of a group of small outcrops controlled by the Japanese, who call them the Senkaku Islands, and also claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu.

By William Pesek TOKYO - The Japanese call them the Senkaku Islands, the Chinese refer to them as Diaoyu. Let me suggest a more appropriate name: Goat Islands. Goats are all you will find on the … ...

Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers the disputed Senkaku Islands from new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on ...

Long-simmering tensions are flaring over the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited archipelago located in the East China Sea known as Diaoyu by China and Diaoyutai by Taiwan. Japan has claimed the ...

This file photos shows a Chinese Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel No. 2302 operating near the Senkaku Islands. Getty Images. All four of the vessels were said to have been equipped with deck ...

A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyus in China is seen in the East China Sea, in this photo ...

Two Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan’s territorial waters near Minamikojima in the Senkaku Islands between 1.56am and 1.59am on Friday, according to the Japan’s coast guard.

The Senkaku Islands are not viewed by Washington as worth getting involved in a shooting war with China over. So, if—and when—China decided to hit Japan over the Senkaku Islands, ...

Chinese coast guard vessels have been routinely passing by Japanese-claimed waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, according to officials in Tokyo.

Japan and China accused each other of airspace violations around the Senkaku Islands off Okinawa Prefecture in the East China Sea after a private plane piloted by a Japanese man flew over the ...