Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she intends to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in China next month, provided parliament permits, signalling her willingness to engage with Beijing
The East China Sea has become a flashpoint for rising tensions between two of Asia’s most powerful nations—China and Japan. At the heart of this dispute lies a small cluster of uninhabited
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Honda’s recent proposal to turn Nissan into a fully owned subsidiary could bring the $58 billion merger talks between the two Japanese automakers to a standstill, potentially jeopardizing plans to create the
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Japan has announced it will freeze its funding to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) following the body’s criticism of the country’s Imperial Household Law, which
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Japan is on the brink of a demographic crisis, with experts warning that the nation’s rapidly ageing population and record-low fertility rate could eventually lead to its extinction. Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor
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I was visiting Japan’s defense HQ about a decade ago. The official I was to interview was very late and left me cooling my heels in his office. I kept walking about
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The Japanese government is preparing to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine. The money, $3.3 billion, helps to underwrite a larger loan that was approved by G-7 leaders in June.
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More than 80 percent of the Japanese feel a sense of crisis about the impact that the country’s falling birthrate could have on society, an opinion poll by public broadcaster NHK has
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A trilateral summit between China, Japan, and South Korea will be held on May 26-27. As Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular briefing on Thursday, the three countries
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Japan’s Cabinet OK’d a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of World War
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Japan is set to start its fourth round of release of the nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, local media reported. Despite
More In the wake of an unfolding political funds scandal involving major factions of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), over 10 senior officials or heavyweight lawmakers have stepped down from their positions
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The United States, Japan, and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea’s missile launches, more worrisome,
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In recent times, middle schoolers have been making waves on Japanese social media, such as ‘Hikiniku’ from the popular middle schooler Youtube channel ‘Kozou tyonmage’, which has 1.54 million subscribers, and the
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Chinese environment minister has urged Japan to faithfully fulfill its international obligations, engage in thorough consultations with other stakeholders, and dispose of the nuclear-contaminated water in a scientific and responsible way. Noting
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Located some 45 meters above ground in central Tokyo, the rooftop garden at Roppongi Hills complex on Saturday welcomed city-bred children and residents in the area to experience reaping rice. Around 170
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