As the Asia-Pacific is seeing a growing consensus that maritime disputes should be handled via direct talks among parties concerned, Japan should stop stoking tensions in the region, and truly honor its promise to make peace.
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) launched a new near-billion U.S. dollar destroyer on Wednesday in Nagasaki Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan, in spite of the pacifist bindings of its constitution and a stagnant economy ill-financed for such extrinsic military hardware.
An aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who also serves as an upper house member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday.
A Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday that Tokyo was not discussing with Moscow the joint administration of disputed islands held by Russia in the hope of unblocking an issue that has bedevilled their relations for 70 years.
Many U.S. media outlets judged that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton outperformed rival Donald Trump during the first U.S. presidential debate on Sept. 26. But the televised battle turned out to have little impact on the post-debate approval ratings for both candidates.
The U.S. should hold talks with Japan over the share each country pays for the stationing of American troops in its ally’s territory, a foreign policy adviser to U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with the Nikkei newspaper published Thursday.
Mount Aso, a volcano on Japan's main southern island of Kyushu, had an explosive eruption early Saturday, Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Typhoon Chaba has caused advisories for more than 30,000 people on the island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture to evacuate their homes as it sweeps through the area causing wave surges, powerful gusts and torrential rain, local media said Wednesday.
Japan and India are likely to sign a civil nuclear cooperation pact during a visit to Japan by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in mid-November, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday.
Japan and the United States plan to test a new interceptor missile with greater range in October in response to North Korea's recent high-altitude ballistic missile launch.
Japan's main opposition Democratic Party leader Renho on Wednesday blasted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his failed economic policies, in the first head-to-head match up of the two leaders since Renho was elected to lead her party on Sept. 15.
Japan's National Diet kicked off a 66-day extraordinary session on Monday, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies, as well as whether to swiftly ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact and to change the pacifist Constitution, under the spotlight.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 struck off the coast of Japan's Okinawa Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan's aging, shrinking population was not a burden, but an incentive to boost productivity through innovations like robots, wireless sensors and Artificial Intelligence.
Mexico's Minister of Tourism Enrique de la Madrid will meet this week with some 60 Chinese tour operators to promote Mexican tourism in China, the ministry said Monday.
Some 23,000 people rallied Monday in Tokyo to protest against the controversial security laws that were enacted by the parliament one year ago, marking Japan's departure from postwar pacifism.
Opponents of planned U.S. helipads on Japan's southern island of Okinawa have stepped up protests in Tokyo after the central government used military aircraft to transport equipment for the project.
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