Led by nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government approved its first national security strategy Tuesday. Based on it, new defense program guidelines and a mid-term defense buildup plan were adopted.
Two more high courts in Japan ruled Monday that July's upper house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality" due to voter weight disparities, an issue that has plagued the nation's electoral system.
Nanjing witnessed mass murder, massacre and war rape following the Japanese capture of the city on December 13, 1937, during World War II.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called for a senior minister of his Cabinet to speed up talks on the sluggish Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal and insisted an agreement be found at an early juncture.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is to make a working visit to Tokyo from Thursday to Sunday in conjunction with the summit marking the 40th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan dialogue relations, Malaysian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden embarked on his weeklong East Asia trip on Sunday, analysts wondered if he was aware of his country's higher stakes in the region caused by Japan's increasingly rightward shift.
While the Cairo Declaration tolled the bell for the Japanese imperialists 70 years ago, the great anti-fascist achievement still sounds an alarming note for the future of Japan.
Akira Amari, Japan's minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations of Japan, brushed aside on Sunday the possibility of making further concessions to the United States on sensitive issues.
Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Song Aiguo has said Cairo Declaration cements the legal foundation to solve the Sino-Japanese territorial row.The Declaration stated, all territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, shall be restored to China.
Akira Amari, Japan's minister in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade negotiations of Japan, brushed aside on Sunday the possibility of making further concessions to the United States on sensitive issues.
Japan will enhance warning and surveillance capacity of its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to ensure its national security, reported local media Wednesday, citing a draft of Japan's new defense guidelines.
Japan's Diet enacted a law on Wednesday, paving the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government to create a U.S.-style National Security Council (NSC) responsible for inter-ministerial and government agency coordination on matters of foreign and defense policies and protocols.
Two senior journalists said at a Hong Kong TV program that the demarcation Chinese ADIZ will ignite the fire of a war, but Washington must do something in case accidental clashes occur.
Japan's ruling coalition on Tuesday pushed a controversial secrecy bill through the lower house of parliament, despite staunch public and political opposition to the bill.
The recent announcement of China's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIA) worsened the already tricky situations in Northeast Asia, South Korea's top diplomat said Wednesday.
China on Saturday announced the establishment of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, yet the United states and Japan's responses to it seemed, to a certain extent, ridiculous.
China refuted Japan's protest on Monday over China's newly established Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea, demanding Japan stop irresponsible words on the issue.
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