The Chinese mainland is seriously concerned about a fishery agreement that Japan and Taiwan are close to signing, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said.
The Bank of Japan's announcement of monetary easing policy made late last week, which was more aggressive than expected, could create problems for its Asian neighbors in terms of trade and capital flow, research groups in Singapore said.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) lifted a ban on food imports from seven prefectures in Japan on Monday.
Visiting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said here Monday that his country supports Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks.
Mayor of Japanese city of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura said at a debate of the city's mayoral election on Monday that he will not withdraw his denial on Nanjing Massacre that more than 300,000 Chinese were killed by Japanese Imperial Army in 1937.
The Bank of Japan's new governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, on Thursday renewed his pledge to expand monetary easing and to achieve a 2-percent inflation goal in two years at his inaugural news conference, just a day after he took office.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday that Japan intends to join in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade liberalization talks.
Japan on Monday marked the second anniversary of 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami which destroyed the country's northeast part and triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl crisis in 1986.
Japan has been stepping up its economic activities in Myanmar since the beginning of this year, especially after the visit of Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, a highest-ranking Japanese official to have come to Myanmar since a civilian government is installed in the Southeast Asian nation.
Japan's government has tapped Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda, 68, to succeed Masaaki Shirakawa as the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) governor, government sources stated Monday.
Japan on Friday held an annual ceremony commemorating disputed islets in the Sea of Japan with South Korea, despite the latter's strong opposition.
Japan has now temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt after anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has accused the Nisshin Maru of ramming two of its vessels in an act of "road rage" as the protesters tried to prevent the whaler from refuelling, Australian Minister for Environment Tony Burke said in a ABC news program on Thursday.
Japan External Trade Organization ( JETRO) released a report Tuesday saying that Japan's total trade with China dropped 3.3 percent to 333.664 billion U.S. dollars in 2012.
China's export dependence on Japan has declined sharply, and Japan's QE will affect the United States more than China, senior economics researchers said in an interview on the weakening yen's impact on China.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held telephone talks Thursday with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss countermeasures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which conducted a nuclear test Tuesday, local media reported.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested Tuesday that a summit between Japan and China is necessary to mend bilateral relations scratched by territorial dispute, local media reported.
Yamaguchi is the first senior member of the Japanese ruling bloc to travel to China since the Japanese government announced in September the "purchase" of part of the Diaoyu Islands, a move that soured bilateral relations.
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