Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's distorted view toward the country's wartime atrocities is undoing his every effort to seek a bigger role for Japan in global affairs.
The number of foreign passengers traveling through Kansai International Airport in the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka has reached its highest level since the air hub's opening in early 1990s, local press reported on Wednesday.
A memorial opened on Sunday in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, to commemorate a Korean patriot who killed a top Japanese official over a century ago.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a one-trillion-dollar spending bill in which a document is attached calling for Secretary of State John Kerry to encourage Japan to address the issue of "comfort women."
Japan logged its largest current account deficit in November 2013, marking the second straight month of red ink as a weaker yen pushed up costs for energy imports, but failed to buoy Japan's key export sector, according to data issued by the Finance Ministry Tuesday.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye urged Japanese leaders to have correct understanding of history to develop future-oriented relationship between the two countries.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's willingness to seek dialogue with China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) went against his act of visiting a controversial war-linked shrine and raising defense spending, Chinese experts have said.
A series of disaster relief trainings using the U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey transport based in Okinawa, southern Japan will be scheduled next month at training fields in the western Japanese prefectures of Kochi and Fukuoka, local press reported on Tuesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent homage at a controversial war-linked shrine mirrors the unrepentant view of Japan's wartime aggression and undermines his stated aim to increase Japan's engagement in safeguarding world peace, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai said Thursday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday headed for Middle East and Africa in a move to enhance economic cooperation with regional countries so as to secure Japan 's energy import and boost its exports.
China's charge d'affaires to S.Korea Chen Hai on Wednesday strongly denounced Japanese rightwing politicians' recent activities of negating history and justifying military aggression, saying these who have done too much wrong will "be nailed to the pillory."
Australian researchers, main stream media and citizens criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was in flagrant disregard of the strong opposition of his Asian neighbors, for his visit last month to Tokyo' Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial which enshrines Japan's war dead including 14 Class-A war criminals of World War II.
China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake in eastern Jiangxi Province, has recently seen a sharp decrease of water level to a record low of only 7.93 meters. Due to the lake's prolonged dry seasons in recent years, an escalating water shortage has caused drinking water scarcity, crippled the local fishing industry, and threatened the lake's ecology. China Report takes you to the scene.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday urged Japan to improve relations with its neighboring countries after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a controversial war shrine in late December fueled tensions with China and South Korea.
The United States is disappointed at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a controversial war shrine, the State Department said Monday.
A poll conducted in Japan has shown that nearly 70 percent of respondents think Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should take diplomatic relations into consideration in deciding whether to visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, expressing their concerns over the controversial practice of the premier.
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi on Saturday declared that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni shrine was a mistake that must be corrected.
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