Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the war criminal-honoring Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, with a handful of other political bigwigs also making a similar offering, although aide Seiichi Eto opted to visit the controversial shrine in person.
Katsuya Okada, leader of the Japanese largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan ( DPJ), on Monday urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to be careful about his statement to be released in the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The upcoming Asian African Summit in Indonesia is aimed at carrying on the spirit of unity, friendship and cooperation with sincere actions, and there is no place for any sort of peace stunt.
The New York Times on Monday blamed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his country's failure to settle its wartime history, one week before he sets foot on U.S. soil for a visit.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to promulgate at a G7 meeting the false idea that Beijing poses a threat to maritime security on the South China Sea and the East China Sea.
The governors of Japan's Hokkaido and Oita prefectures, both backed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc, beat their opponents backed by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in Sunday's gubernatorial elections, local media reported late Sunday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would disappoint U.S. President Barack Obama over the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks as the Japanese conservative leader said Friday that his country would not make easy concessions on accelerating the negotiations.
Japan on Thursday launched an information-gathering satellite (IGS) with an optical reconnaissance payload on an H-2A rocket, the country's second launch this year.
During a meeting with a delegation from Japan on Monday, Chinese political advisor Yu Zhengsheng said that China-Japan relations were resuming and improving due to the effort of both sides.
The Japanese government must reflect on its history of aggression for the sake of contemporary peace, urged a commentary published in the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China, on Monday.
Foreign and defense officials from China and Japan kicked off a high-level security meeting here on Thursday, the first one between the two sides in more than four years.
Senior U.S. and Japanese officials on Tuesday discussed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Washington next month.
S.Korea to actively review facility construction on islets disputed with Japan
World media and public have joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel in urging Japan to learn from Germany and squarely face up to its wartime atrocities.
Japanese media and public on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to face up to history squarely, citing German Chancellor Angela Merkel's words"facing World War II crimes is key to reconciliation"during a lecture in Tokyo.
China urged Japan to "make the right choice" on history by facing up to its past aggression on Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday agreed here to speed up their efforts to forge a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, and vowed to improve their cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
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