"Prime Minister Abe, who is the second perpetrator of the murder case? You are", Tamaki Ai, a student of University of the Ryukyus, said during Sunday's massive rally in Naha, capital city of Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa.
Tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of Okinawa in Japan's southernmost Prefecture on Sunday to express their ongoing anger at the disproportionate presence of U.S. military personnel on the island and the crimes committed by them, in particular the brutal rape and murder of a local women by a base-linked worker recently.
The fundamental problem of the Japanese economy is a declining workforce, an Australia international economist told Xinhua recently in an exclusive interview.
Russian and Chinese warships entered what Japan called the "contiguous zones" near the Diaoyu Islands almost at the same time on Wednesday night.
Police in Okinawa in Japan's southernmost prefecture issued a further arrest warrant on an already detained former U.S. Marine and base worker for the rape and murder of a 20-year old local woman in April as Okinawans are becoming increasingly incensed at the U.S. presence on the island, local media reported Thursday.
Members of European Parliament (MEPs) gathered for a plenary session here, pressing on Wednesday for the European Council and the European Commission to condemn the decision by Japan to resume whale hunting and to catch 333 small rorqual whales during the 2015-2016 season.
China on Saturday urged Japan to respect China's major interests and concerns, and not to intervene in or hype up the South China Sea issue.
Takayuki Tanooka meets with reporters Friday in Hakodate after his 7-year-old son, Yamato, was found safe after being left on a mountain road last Saturday as punishment for misbehaving. The 44-year-old father apologized for the trouble he caused.
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Wednesday decided to further delay a sales tax hike, "Abenomics" has been labeled a failure. World financial experts believe that the palliative and ineffective "Abenomics" will likely plunge Japan's economy into a "black hole."
Following the announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that polling for the upper house election will begin on July 10, both the ruling coalition and opposition parties on Thursday began their campaign offenses.
China urged Japan to properly deal with the issue of Chinese forced laborers in World War II as Mitsubishi Materials Corp. has offered to apologize and compensate nearly 4,000 Chinese victims.
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.
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday survived a no-confidence motion thanks to the majority of seats secured by the Abe-led ruling bloc in the lower house of the parliament.
Japan’s industrial production edged up in April, data showed Tuesday, despite factory shutdowns sparked by a pair of deadly earthquakes that rocked southern Kyushu.
Keen on investments from Japan to boost economic growth, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday met key ministers in the Japanese administration and wooed pension funds to partner in India's infrastructure development.
Defence Minister Gen Nakatani ordered the Self-Defence Forces on Monday to prepare to intercept a possible North Korean missile, a government source said while South Korea also said it had detected evidence of launch preparations, officials from Japan and South Korea said.
It is hypocritical for Japan, the presiding country of the Ise-Shima summit of the Group of Seven (G7), to require others to abide by the international laws when the island country led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe neither follows its own Constitution nor international laws.
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