Japan, the United States, and the Philippines carried out a major coast guard drills together on Friday. The drill took place in the waters off Kagoshima, a southern part of Japan. This event comes at a time when worries are growing about China’s increasing actions in the Pacific Ocean.

Joint coast guard exercises held between Japan, the United States and the Philippines off Japan's southwest shore Saturday follow a warning about Chinese activity in disputed regional waters, which Beijing claims almost entirely,

Japan’s coast guard has held a joint exercise with counterparts from the United States and the Philippines, as the three Pacific nations beef up defense cooperation in the face of China’s expanding ma