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 ...

Japan uses the term Sea of Japan to refer to the body of water separating it from the Korean Peninsula; South Korea calls it ...

The Russian Navy’s large landing ship, Admiral Nevelskoy, conducted artillery firing drills in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Feb 17 ...

Pyongyang launched missiles toward the East Sea just three days after it fired ... in step with its military alliance with Washington. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told ...

Officials say a powerful cold air mass and winter pressure pattern are bringing snow mainly to the Sea of Japan side of the main island of Honshu. They say the amount of snow that fell in Wajima ...

ONOMICHI, Japan -- In late October, as the autumn leaves were turning yellow, I sat on the deck of a ferry crossing part of the Seto Inland Sea, a 440-kilometer-long body of water that separates ...