While the Cairo Declaration tolled the bell for the Japanese imperialists 70 years ago, the great anti-fascist achievement still sounds an alarming note for the future of Japan.
About 40 Japanese private operators have expressed interest in investing in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, mining and forestry in the Republic of Congo.
The latest statistics from Japan's health ministry show that one in 49 babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent, giving way to a growing demographic of mixed-race nationals in Japan, known colloquially as "Hafu."
Japan was urged by a Chinese spokesman on Monday to stop its provocative talk after its country's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe depicted China as a threat to regional security.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday morning made an offering to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its autumn festival, according to local media.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to expand efforts to fight the country's decades- old deflation, announcing his resolve to implement an all-out growth strategy.
Japan and its key ally the United States will hold a two-plus-two summit between the two countries' foreign and defense ministers on Oct. 3 in Tokyo on bilateral security cooperation, reported local media Friday.
On a massif in Laiyuan, north China's Hebei province, 73 years ago, Chinese communist soldiers won a major battle against Japanese invaders.
There is no month like September that witnessed so many major events on the bumpy road of China-Japan relations.
Japanese enterprises remained optimistic in China's market with more veering towards the service sector from traditional manufacturing as Sino-Japan economic ties cooled down due to disputes over the Diaoyu Islands.
The Eighth G20 Leaders' Summit was held in St. Petersburg of Russia on Thursday. Prior to the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping encountered Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the VIP room for participating leaders. The two sides had a brief talk.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has urged Japanese politicians to be clearer about the history of Japanese colonial rule and aggression towards its Asian neighbors, cautioning against repeating mistakes.
The best solution, according to a number of experts on the matter, is for Japan's politicians to pay their respect to the lives lost during the war at Japan's official war cemetery, just minutes from the unofficial Yasukuni site.
Two Japanese ministers on Thursday morning visited the notorious Yasukuni shrine, a move that will further harm mutual trust between Japan and its neighbors.
At least two Japanese cabinet ministers paid their respects at Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of the country's past militarism, as the 68th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II came on Thursday.
China has strongly protested against and condemned the visits of Japanese cabinet members to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday.
Sixty-eight years ago, then Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced in a radio address the country's surrender to the allies. However, the ghost of militarism still haunts Asia and threatens to challenge the post-war world order, according to experts.
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