Japan will install a military outpost on a small island close to Taiwan in order to keep watch over China’s maritime maneuvers in the East China Sea.

A network of alliances and cooperative relationships is emerging in south and east Asia to combat China’s increasingly aggressive rise.

On the heels of Japan’s recent apology to the Philippines for wartime brutality, the Japanese PM will meet with South Korea’s President to discuss the “comfort women” dispute.

Not all Japanese are on board with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s attempts to remilitarize the country.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told an audience in Beijing, point blank, not to pull a “Crimea” in its territorial disputes in the region. Will it be enough to reassure Japan and other nervous U.S. allies in East Asia?

A State Department official issued the starkest warning to China yet: Don’t get any ideas from Crimea. President Obama will soon travel to Asia to reaffirm his support for America’s allies in the region.

Japan seeks to reboot its defense industry by permitting it to export, as tensions escalate in East Asia.

The Taiwanese navy’s latest prize asset is a twin-hulled, stealthy missile corvette that carries powerful anti-ship missiles and can hit a top speed of 70 kilometers an hour. The ship, the first of a possible 12 under construction, was delivered this weekend.

Japan’s Shinzo Abe is working to revise rules on exporting military equipment as part of his program of militarization. But not everyone in Japan is on board.

A top general from the Filipino military is accusing the Chinese Navy of water-hosing Filipino fishermen around the disputed Scarborough Shoal. The Game of Thrones is heating up.