South Korea on Thursday slammed Japan for its repeated territorial claim over a pair of islets, called Dokdo here and Takeshima in Japan, lying halfway between the two countries.
The rainy season, usually called " plum rain season," has started Thursday in Japan's Kanto region including the Tokyo Metropolitan area as well as Hokuriku region in central Japan facing the Sea of Japan, local media reported.
Emergency services rushed more than 1600 people to hospital suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion due to a week of unseasonably hot weather through June 1, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its small ruling partner the New Komeito Party are at odds on a government proposal issued Tuesday that seeks to allow the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to support Japan's allies in combat zone.
Emergency services rushed more than 1600 people to hospital suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion due to a week of unseasonably hot weather through June 1, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
Vice President of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party Masahiko Komura on Tuesday met with a close aide to Russian president, seeking balance between the United States and Russia over current Ukraine crisis, local media reported.
Japan's second-largest opposition party the Japan Restoration Party will split in two as its two leaders are at odds about the party's merger with the Unity Party (Yui no To), a top spokesperson said Wednesday.
Japan must respect the legitimate rights of Chinese and Russian navies and stop its reconnaissance and disturbance to the China-Russia naval drills, China's Ministry of National Defense said on Sunday.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that his country can learn from Japan on managing the aging issue
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has advanced his signature goal of formally militarizing the nation based on the findings of a hand-picked panel of constitutional and security experts who have green lit Abe's controversial security directive.
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe steamrolls ahead with his signature dictum to allow Japanese forces the right to collective self-defense, some within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition believe that more time and debate is needed on the thorny issue.
Japan's Administrative Reform Minister Tomomi Inada paid a visit to the notorious Yasukuni war shrine on Monday afternoon, local media reported.
China on Saturday published more than 110,000 confidential Japanese documents from wartime to expose Japan's history of invasion.
Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday made a commitment to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the disputed Diaoyu Islands between Japan and China fall under U.S.-Japan security treaty, but the commitment would become a risky war trigger at the hawkish Japanese leader's hands.
The Indonesian government is ready to face the Japanese plan to file a complaint to WTO on the Indonesia's policy to bar export of raw mining products, including nickel ores, a minister said here on Thursday.
Politicians and experts from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea on Tuesday called for accelerating talks on a trilateral free trade agreement to ease political tensions, as they spoke at a forum aimed at boosting regional cooperation.
Japan was a friend of South Korea one time and an enemy the other as history says. Now, at a time when Japan may have become a heartfelt neighbor, or at least not an enemy, to South Korea, its leadership decided to add fuel to the flames of its bereft next-door neighbor by visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine.
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