Japan gave warning on Friday that the chance of Japan becoming a target of terrorist attacks cannot be ruled out, vowing to strengthen international cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
A museum in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province, has launched a drive to find and record interviews with witnesses in the trial of Japanese war criminals 60 years ago.
Nader Naeimi, who gave up on Japan at the start of the year, says he’s turned bullish again.
Following a widely anticipated win for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition in Sunday's upper house election, the prime minister has tightened his grip on power by wooing the electorate with dubious pledges of economic salvation, but in fact bringing his goal of constitutional amendment closer to actualization.
The Japanese ruling camp led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe retained its majority in the parliament' s upper house through a victory on Sunday's election in the chamber and paved way to constitutional amendment as upper house lawmakers who support to review the country's war-renouncing constitution reached two-thirds majority, final election result showed early Monday.
A Japanese politician who became an internet sensation for crying like a baby when he was accused of misusing public funds was handed a suspended sentence on Wednesday for corruption.
China accused Japan on Monday of using its fighter jets to stage provocative actions over the East China Sea.
Japan's Fast Retailing Co., owner of the Uniqlo casual-wear brand, said it plans to suspend all business travel to Bangladesh after militants targeting foreigners killed 20 people in the country's capital on Saturday, including seven Japanese.
Relatives of the seven Japanese killed and one injured in a terrorist attack in Dhaka have arrived in the Bangladeshi capital.
Seven Japanese were killed as a result of the standoff with gunmen at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on July 2.
Japanese government's poor efforts to resolve "comfort women" issue will become a "boomerang" to its political position in the Asia Pacific region, an Indonesian expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The Japanese government stayed alert on possible economic turbulence following Britain's decision to leave the European Union and held a meeting Monday morning discussing measures to cope with after-effects of it.
Hilaria Bustamante was only 16 years old when, one day more than 70 years ago, three Japanese soldiers abducted her, hauled her onto a military truck and brought her to a garrison where she was reportedly imprisoned and repeatedly raped for a year.
Britain voting to leave the European Union poses both short and mid-term issues for Japan's economy with the longer term consequences as yet being unknown in fact posing the biggest problem of all after the "Brexit" vote, as the economy here is notoriously vulnerable to uncertainty.
Leaders of Japanese political parties on Tuesday debated on key political and economic issues ahead of the upcoming House of Councillors election slated for July 10, with the ruling camp seeking to gain over two thirds of the seats in the chamber so as to launch a Constitution amendment motion.
"The Japanese and American governments regard Okinawa as their 'military colony' and the Okinawan people should continue their fight to change the status quo," said Kantoku Teruya, a member of the lower house of the Japanese parliament from Okinawa during an exclusive interview with Xinhua recently.
The fundamental problem of the Japanese economy is a declining workforce, an Australia international economist told Xinhua recently in an exclusive interview.
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