Shinjiro Koizumi makes some of Tokyo's most pointed remarks yet in the dispute over Japan's military build-up.

Beijing has repeatedly criticised Tokyo’s growing defence spending and military moves. This month, China’s foreign ministry ...

R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n ...

“There is a country that has a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons and strategic bombers,” Koizumi said in a speech at the ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ...

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed ...

Neither the Japan-U.S. alliance nor the Sino-Japanese economic relationship will completely unravel overnight. However, the ...

Shared concerns over China have drawn Manila and Tokyo together. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

For years, the rivalry between China and Japan has been treated as a recurring diplomatic irritant. Historical grievances stemming from Japan’s invasion of China in the early 20th century have always ...

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi rejected China’s accusations of “new militarism” and voiced concern over Beijing’s ...

NAGASAKI, Japan—As a teacher, Michiko Yagi told schoolchildren that Japan had made a solemn promise to the world never to wage war again. Now 87, Yagi had been lucky to survive the atomic blast that ...