Some 50,000 people rallied in Tokyo on Tuesday on the occasion of the 69th Constitution Memorial Day of Japan to protest against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's unwanted attempts to amend the nation's pacifist Constitution.
China on Friday urged Japan's political figures to uphold correct conception of history after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine.
Japanese Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki on Saturday paid homage to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's offering and Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi's visit earlier, despite neighboring China's urge to stop such provocative move.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe along with some notable senior politicians on Thursday made ritual offerings to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
The presence of a Japanese submarine in annual military exercises is not a sales pitch as Australia enters the final stretch on its highly publicized, and politicized, procurement process for the nation's next submarine fleet, a senior Japanese commander said.
As Japan's new security legislation goes into force on Tuesday, the jitters felt by Japan's wartime victims deserve more serious attention.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe' s cabinet made the decision on Tuesday that the controversial new security-related legislation will become effective on March 29, marking an overhaul of the country's exclusively defensive defense posture in about seven decades.
A video surfaced on Thursday appearing to show a missing Japanese journalist, reportedly held by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, reading a message to his family and country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday met with Gil Won-ok, one of the victims who were drafted by Japan as so-called "comfort women" during the Second World War, Ban's spokesman told reporters here.
A Japanese submarine will visit the Philippines for the first time in 15 years, along with two warships that will then sail on to Vietnam.
South Korea on Wednesday urged Japan to refrain from words and actions that would damage an agreement reached between the two countries on Japan's sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II.
Japanese runner Kayoko Fukushi excelled herself and won the Osaka International Women's Marathon on Sunday, qualifying herself for this summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Saturday ended their five-day state visit to the Philippines.
Japanese Emperor Akihito bowed his head in sorrow during a somber ceremony at the Philippines’ biggest war cemetery yesterday, but also enjoyed banter about cars, fashion, food and traffic on the first full day of a historic visit.
Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrived Tuesday in the Philippines for a five-day state visit here.
"It's more than a feeling of awkwardness, it's a feeling of degradation and humiliation as our history, which is the world's history, is constantly being refuted and dismissed and this affects us so very deeply, to the point that lately living here has become more uncomfortable."
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