Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would disappoint U.S. President Barack Obama over the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks as the Japanese conservative leader said Friday that his country would not make easy concessions on accelerating the negotiations.
China urged Japan to "make the right choice" on history by facing up to its past aggression on Monday.
At least 1,000 South Koreans who were forced to work for Japanese companies during World War Two plan to file the largest class-action suit of its kind for damages from their former employers.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told an Upper House session on Tuesday he plans to draft legislation to allow the nation's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to be deployed overseas to rescue Japanese nationals deemed in danger.
Kansai Airport, the international hub in western Japan, has tightened security after the Islamic State ( IS) militant group killed its second Japanese hostage and announced the Japanese people as targets of terrorism, local media reported on Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on early Sunday morning harshly condemned the purported killing of Kenji Goto, following the latest video message uploaded by the militant group Islamic State shows the beheading of a man suspected to be the captured Japanese national.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed in a video posted online late Saturday that it had killed a second Japanese hostage, Kenji Goto.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference that the man beheaded by the Islamic State militants showed in a video posted on-line early Sunday is highly likely to be Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, local media reported.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group threatened to kill a Japanese hostage and Jordanian pilot within 24 hours if female suicide bomber is not released.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday condemned a possible kill of a Japanese hostage held by the Islamic State (IS) militants after a likely video released late Saturday suggested that a Japanese captive, Haruna Yukawa, was killed.
Japanese top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Sunday that the latest video suggesting a Japanese hostage held by the Islamic State (IS) militants was killed is likely authentic, adding that Japan is still analyzing whether the clip was posted by the IS.
The Japanese government on Thursday has desperately being looking into all and every possible channels available to it in a bid to negotiate with Islamic State (IS) militants on the release of two Japanese nationals being held to ransom, before a 72-hour deadline imposed by the group expires.
The Brazilian government on Thursday condemned the kidnapping of two Japanese nationals by the Islamic State and the threat to kill both of them unless Japan pays a ransom.
China and Japan, whose relations have been constantly troubled by Japan's increasingly right-tilting moves over the past few years, have reached four-point agreement in November. Now the onus is on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to walk his talk.
The Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders exhibited 7,602 newly collected relics of the Japanese aggression on Monday morning.
The second episode of a serial documentary on the Nanjing Massacre was released on Monday ahead of the inaugural National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims.
The Japanese government has been asked to apologize to the victims in the Nanjing Massacre and their surviving dependents and to pay suitable compensation.
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