President Donald Trump's seeming ambivalence about the value of allies has created a sense of urgency among nations with ...

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed ...

R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n ...

That’s the anniversary of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, when China’s Qing Empire surrendered to Imperial Japan after the First Sino-Japanese War. “[That is] a date China regards as a symbol of ...

Japan scrambled its fighter jets 448 times in nine months last year. Most of the intercepts involved Russian or Chinese ...

For years, the rivalry between China and Japan has been treated as a recurring diplomatic irritant. Historical grievances stemming from Japan’s invasion of China in the early 20th century have always ...

Beijing says Japan's 'neo-militarism' is a 'scourge' that threatens regional peace and stability China condemned what it called Japan's first "offensive missile" test overseas in eight decades, saying ...

Japan and EU express concern over South China Sea tensions at UN Security Council China accuses Japan of provocations in Taiwan Strait and military expansion April 27 (Reuters) - China denounced ...

Japan’s decision to send combat troops to the Philippines for the first time since World War II and participate in a ship-sinking drill in the South China Sea this week underscores Tokyo’s rising ...

Japan has lifted most of its restrictions on weapons exports, enabling the country to sell arms overseas for the first time since World War II, in a move aimed at strengthening its defense industrial ...