U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over phone on Tuesday, the White House said, after the Wikileaks website revealed alleged U.S. spying on Japanese officials and companies.
The Wikileaks website on Friday posted some reports by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), showing that the country has for years been intercepting phone calls between Japanese officials on sensitive issues.
The overturn on Japan's "purely defensive" defense posture pushed for by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a historical revisionist who is keen to beef up Japan's military role, is "emphatically the wrong choice: it enhances the chances of war," an expert on international political economy has said.
The Security bills, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had dreamed of but the vast majority of Japanese people had opposed to, were rammed through the lower house of parliament last week, endangering the East Asian region and the world as no sincere repentance over wartime history was made by the Abe cabinet.
A series of controversial security- related bills proposed by Japan's ruling bloc were rammed through a special committee of Japanese parliament's lower house Wednesday noon, paving the way for a vote for the bills at the full chamber later.
Scholars on Tuesday used historical facts and figures to show China's great loss of life and property in the Anti-Japanese War and stress the country's anti-fascist role in WWII.
A senior Japanese leader's remarks regarding commemorative activities marking the anniversary of China's victory against Japanese aggression is yet more proof that historical revisionism is, once again, rearing its ugly head.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday urged Japan to take an honest and responsible attitude towards history and secure the trust of its neighbors through solid actions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Moscow Sunday to remember war victims as Russia continues to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Great Patriotic War, Russia's term for World War II.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wrapped up his week-long visit to the United States on Sunday. However, his irresponsible remarks and the attitude of distorting history released during the trip have drawn widespread criticism.
The effort of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to emasculate and revise the country's war-renouncing constitution encountered a mass protest on Sunday, the country's 68th Constitution Memorial Day, when he returned from the United States with the updated bilateral defense guidelines that will result in unconstitutional revision of security-related legislation.
U.S. President Barack Obama held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House on Tuesday, reaffirming ties between the allies on issues ranging from security to trade.
Some 500 people from the Chinese American and Korean American communities protested here on Tuesday against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's continued efforts to distort historic facts.
Tomomi Inada, policy chief of Japan ' s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP), on Tuesday provocatively paid homage to the war-linked notorious Yasukuni Shrine ahead Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's summit with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington later in the day.
A minister of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet visited the war criminal-honored Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, one day after Chinese President Xi Jinping told Abe that history issue is a major matter of principle concerning political basis of bilateral ties.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting at the request of the Japanese side Wednesday afternoon on the sidelines of the Asian-African Summit in Indonesia's capital city.
A German correspondent in Tokyo has condemned the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's control over critical reporting, asking the country to explain more to people.
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