China has investigated a Japanese citizen on suspicion of threatening Chinese national security, confirmed the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday.
Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first female governor on Sunday after her two predecessors stepped down amid scandals while the city is gearing up for preparations of the 2020 Olympic Games.
Thai Department of Industrial Works Friday held an event to send more than 190 tonnes of electronic waste back to Japan, after seven containers of hazardous waste were seized two years ago.
Second place held by Japanese women and Icelandic and Swiss men
The killing of 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled raised questions about whether Japan’s reputation as one of the safest countries in the world is creating a false sense of security.
Japanese automakers have been making international headlines in recent months, but this time, for the wrong reasons.
Koreans and Japanese are taking a more positive view of each other than in the past even as age-old resentments between their governments fester, a survey suggests. But the overall feeling is still negative on both sides.
Nintendo Co's (7974.T) shares fell 10 percent in early trade on Wednesday after they more than doubled in value over the past seven sessions powered by the record-breaking success of the Pokemon GO mobile game.
A South Korean man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for detonating a homemade pipe bomb at a controversial Tokyo war shrine.
The launch of Japan’s first dedicated military communications satellite will be delayed by two years after a mishap with a blue tarpaulin damaged sensitive antennas during transportation to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, two government sources said.
On the face of it, Shinzo Abe and Natsuo Yamaguchi are the very best of political allies. The front pages of Japan’s newspapers were last week dominated by pictures of the two party leaders smiling and embracing at the scale of their shared victory in the previous day’s election for the Upper House of the Diet.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 jolted the west Kanto region of Japan at 13:24 local time on Sunday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
China urged the US and Japan on Wednesday to stop distorting international law and using the "arbitration" on the South China Sea to serve their own political aims.
Government archives and historical materials show that Japan admitted both publicly and in government documents in the 1920s and 1930s that the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea belong to China, said Zhu Jianrong, a professor of international relations at Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo, Japan.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will regain majority in the upper house of the parliament for the first time in 27 years, after an independent lawmaker submitted the application to join the party, the party said Wednesday.
South Korea’s major dailies on Monday carried articles on their front pages on Japan’s House of Councillors election held on Sunday, with headlines focusing on the path being cleared for constitutional reform by the ruling coalition.
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.
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