As Japan's new security legislation goes into force on Tuesday, the jitters felt by Japan's wartime victims deserve more serious attention.
Pressure is mounting on Japan to explain itself regarding its considerable stockpiles of nuclear materials that could be weaponized and threaten the safety of the global community, against a backdrop of rising tensions in the region and a worldwide threat of increasing terrorism.
A ship carrying 331 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium left a port in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Tuesday en route to the United States.
The Japanese government upping the ante on its revisionist agenda by intervening in the screening and authorization of the content of humanities textbooks to be used in high schools has scholars and experts up in arms over more potentially distorted views being passed on to youngsters.
The Japanese government lodged a protest with the United States over an alleged rape committed by a U.S. navy sailor in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa on Sunday, top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Monday.
An agreement between South Korea and Japan on "comfort women" is "null and void," Yongsoo Lee, a South Korean survivor of Japanese military sexual slavery, said here on Tuesday.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) highlighted on Monday that the issue of "comfort women" remains unsettled despite recent Japanese claims to the contrary.
Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday called for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to exercise restraint and adhere to U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Chinese visitors to Japan more than doubled their hotel stays in 2015, and they are spending more on personal items rather than on goods such as electrical appliances.
Japan signed Monday an agreement with the Philippines on the transfer of defense equipment and technology.
The Japanese government on Friday pledged 1 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid to help Latin American countries tackle the Zika virus after a case was confirmed near Tokyo a day earlier.
Japan's consumer prices remained flat in January compared to the same period a year earlier, as a protracted downturn in energy prices and a comparatively firm yen may lead the key gauge to enter negative territory and the central bank to intervene, data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications showed Friday.
A Japanese teenager infected Zika virus after his return from Brazil, becoming the first Zika case in the island country since the disease spread in Latin America from last year, according to the health ministry here on Thursday.
A planned merger of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) may be approved as early as Friday, representatives from both parties confirmed Wednesday.
Japanese top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that Japan will allow women's soccer team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to enter the country for the Olympic qualifying games, despite bilateral tensions.
China's National People's Congress (NPC) and Japan's House of Councillors restarted a bilateral mechanism for regular exchanges in Beijing on Monday.
Japan has returned to being Korea's biggest competitor on the export front, while their biggest battle ground is the U.S. market. In China, Korean exports are managing to maintain the top spot, but U.S. exports are catching up quickly.
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