Over 60 percent of Japanese public showed their doubt about the effectiveness of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy mix dubbed "Abenomics," said the latest nationwide poll released on Monday.
Guo Chunlai will never forget the day when he saw Japanese war criminals repent on a Chinese court 60 years ago.
Some legislators from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday insisted that Japan should not allow a South Korean foundation helping the 46 surviving "comfort women" who were brutalized in military brothels by the Japanese army during the war to receive funds they were promised.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday announced he will delay an already controversial planned tax hike further from April 2017 to October 2019 in a surefire sign that his once-revered "Abenomics" blend of economic policies has failed to breathe life into Japan's ailing economy.
Fifteen associations of history scholars and educators in Japan issued a joint statement here on Monday, demanding the related parties sincerely face the "comfort women" issue so as to fundamentally solve this problem.
The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist being held hostage by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, after an apparent photograph of the man was posted on the internet.
South Korea's foreign ministry said Monday that a preparatory committee will be launched on Tuesday to establish the World War II sexual slavery victims foundation, which was agreed upon in December last year with Japan.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has lodged a protest with U.S. President Barack Obama over the incident that led to the arrest of an American man working at a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture on suspicion of abandoning the body of a Japanese woman. At the same time, A massive rally is being prepared by political parties, businesses and civic groups in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture to protest.
U.S. President Barack Obama extended "sincerest condolences and deepest regrets" over the murder of a Japanese woman by a U.S. military-affiliated civilian here late Wednesday at a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
In front of the local government of Iidate Village in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture stands a big radiation measuring device. On its spotless dashboard flashes a red number: 0.38 microsieverts/hour.
Nobuo Nakatani had to catch his breath when he looked at a list of Japanese paintings in the possession of the British Museum while he was in London in 1999.
Since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed power in 2012, the economic strata of Japan is gradually degenerating to a "pyramid" with the polarization of the rich and the poor becoming more serious and the poor at the bottom accounting for an increasingly larger part of the population.
The Japanese government on Wednesday said that the country's economy increased an annualized 1.7 percent in real terms in the first quarter of 2016 and that this corresponded to a 0.4 percent growth from the previous quarter, attributing the increase to recovering private consumption.
The new Japanese Ambassador to China, Yutaka Yokoi, a China expert who previously worked in the country in other roles for more than five years, arrived in Beijing on Sunday.
Around 1,000 protesters marched in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday in protest against the relocation of a controversial U.S. military base and demanded the closure of all bases on the island.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands after addressing the media during a news conference at in London on May 5. (AP Photo/ Pool) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Britain will be a less attractive destination for Japanese investment if it leaves the European Union.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the latest political leader Thursday to warn of the consequences of Britain voting to leave the EU.
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