Japanese companies’ direct investments in China in 2015 decreased 25.2 percent from the year before, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said Wednesday.
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South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday refuted the comments by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who denied the "forced" recruitment of Korean women as sex slaves during World War II.
Activists fighting for rights of"comfort women"rallied Wednesday around Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence demanding that the government properly handle the historical issue, rather than using money to made a deal over the country's wartime wrongdoing.
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In August 1910, the Empire of Japan formally annexed what had once been the sovereign nation of Korea. It is only now, over a century later, that Japan and Korea have formally reconciled one of the darkest legacies of that era: the 1930s and '40s recruitment of Korean women and girls as sex slaves known as "comfort women."
South Korea and Japan on Monday reached an agreement on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an official apology for the atrocities.
China responded to the agreement reached by Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II on Monday, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way.
The Japanese government on Thursday opted to neither confirm or deny whether a Japanese journalist who has allegedly been kidnapped in Syria is being held by an armed group.
The Japanese government is seeking information after reports a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage in Syria and has been threatened with execution, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met here Friday with visiting Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull to boost bilateral cooperation, but divergence remained between them over Japan's controversial plan to restart its so-called scientific whaling.
The majority of Japanese people believe that the nation is not sufficiently prepared to handle a major act of terrorism, such as the fatal attacks that occurred in Paris last month, despite Japan playing host to a number of high profile international events over the next five years.
A memorial for "comfort women" during World War II opened to the public in east China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday.
Taiwan commemorated the 70th anniversary of the recovery of sovereignty from Japanese occupation with solemn ceremonies, festive gatherings and sentimental memory-sharing of past heroes.
Nearly 80 years after the Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre, one of the darkest moments in human history, records of the atrocities have been added on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register on Friday.
Japan, the culprit of the notorious Nanjing Massacre in late 1937 during World War II, on Saturday protested against United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) decision to list one of the worst atrocities in history on its Memory of the World Register.
Documents of Nanjing Massacre have been listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register on Friday.
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