Senkaku
China sends warships and Japan sends fighters: What's cooking in the eastern sky?
More than 50 US and Japanese warplanes flew over waters off Japan this week amid rising tensions with China and Russia
Japan protests Chinese navy sailing near disputed islands
Japan lodged a protest with China on Monday over a Chinese naval vessel sailing near disputed islands, a Japanese official said, as reports emerged of Russia also sending its own navy ship to the area.
The islets in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku by Tokyo and the Diaoyu by Beijing, are at the centre of a long-running dispute between Japan and China.