The Chinese military has frequently used waterways around Japan—including the Osumi Strait and the Miyako Strait—for naval deployments beyond the First Island Chain. Beijing claims that it is ...

It then sailed past the southern end of Japan's Kyushu Island during 7 and 8 February before going through the Osumi Strait on 9 February while heading back to the East China Sea where it was last ...

On Nov. 11, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine passed through the Soya Strait, which separates Japan’s northernmost main island, Hokkaido, and Russia’s Sakhalin Island.

China and Russia sent four strategic bombers to patrol the waters of the northern Pacific and Bering Strait near Alaska in late June, one month after the two nations sent a combined flotilla of four ...

The nearby Osumi Strait, situated between the Osumi Peninsula on the Japanese island of Kyushu and the island of Tanegashima ...

It comes just a year after China deployed a similar amphibious assault ship through the Osumi Strait, which lies off Japan’s southwest coast, and months after Beijing highlighted the ship’s role in ...

The flotilla sailed from the waters south of South Korea’s Jeju Island, passed by the Philippine Sea through Osumi Strait in northern Japan and entered the South China Sea through the Balintang ...

From Thursday to Friday, the four ships sailed through the Osumi Strait to enter the Pacific Ocean. Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer escort JS Jintsu (DE-230) ...

The Osumi Strait was one of several strategic waterways used by Russia and China's navies in the past 12 months as they threaded the so-called first island chain, ...

This image published on April 15 by the Joint Staff of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces shows the Chinese navy’s Type 815 or Dongdiao-class intelligence ship Beijixing transiting the Osumi Strait ...

And in doing so, test the definition of a “strait. ... (23 nautical miles wide), Osumi Strait (16 nautical miles wide) to 3 nautical miles, leaving high seas at the center of these straits.

Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced on Friday (June 30) that two PLAN ships were detected crossing the Osumi Strait, south of Kyushu, and into the Pacific Ocean. The two ships were identified as the ...