A senior Japanese leader's remarks regarding commemorative activities marking the anniversary of China's victory against Japanese aggression is yet more proof that historical revisionism is, once again, rearing its ugly head.
China on Tuesday urged Japan to stop using language to cloud what really happened at the Meiji-era industrial sites, which were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list on Sunday.
As China marks the 78th anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident which marked the start of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, hundreds of renowned Japanese scholars gathered in Tokyo, criticizing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's historical revisionism.
Prosecutors in Tokyo will release Julie Hamp, who resigned as a Toyota executive following her arrest last month for allegedly illegally importing a restricted narcotic painkiller into Japan, Kyodo News said on Tuesday.
The anniversary of the July 7 Incident, or the Lugou Bridge Incident, commemorated in China every year, once again brings to mind Japan's cowardly attitude towards history.
China on Monday urged Japan not to obstruct efforts made by China and southeast Asian nations to maintain peace on the South China Sea situation.
China on Monday urged Japan not to obstruct efforts made by China and southeast Asian nations to maintain peace on the South China Sea situation.
Japan has halted all its Shinkansen bullet trains running between Tokyo and Osaka, after one of the super express trains made an emergency stop south of Tokyo when white smoke was seen billowing out of one of the carriages following a man setting himself alight.
Two members of the Philippine legislature, one from the House of Representatives and the other from the Senate, have questioned the legality of the Philippine military alliance with the United States and Japan.
About 25,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded Japan's Diet building to express their strong opposition against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to ram a series of security-related bills which are considered unconstitutional by constitutional experts.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is forging ahead with his plans to pass contentious security legislation through parliament albeit at a delayed date and in spite of the fact that the vast majority of the public oppose the implications the new bills will have on the nation's future security and the fact the bills themselves have been deemed unconstitutional by a plethora of legal experts on constitutional matters.
Philippines President Benigno Aquino said here on Friday that his country is to start talks that may allow Japan's military aircraft and naval vessels to use bases in the Philippines for refueling and picking up.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino here on Wednesday spouted again his ignorant metaphor -- likening China to Nazi Germany -- on the South China Sea issue and tried again to drag Japan and tow the United States towards further meddling in the region.
South Korea on Tuesday expressed its still cautious stance toward a summit with Japan despite a series of ministerial-level talks between the two countries in security, economy and tourism.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se on Monday confirmed a firm U.S.-South Korea alliance against any threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) during their talks.
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a package of defense bills on Thursday and eyed their approval in the Diet before July.
"There was a lot of bullying when I was at school, particularly when I was an elementary school student. They used to throw garbage in my face but I had no idea why," 22-year-old Ariana Miyamoto, who has taken the world by storm since becoming the first Afro-Asian to be crowned Miss Universe Japan last month, told APD in an exclusive interview.
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