4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (434+ words) When the latest United States-Japan-Republic of Korea "Freedom Edge" exercise commenced on Monday — six warships, 2,300 personnel, and advanced air, maritime and cyber capabilities — the official language was the familiar talk of "freedom" and "rules-based order". But whenever the governments of…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (192+ words) BEIJING -- A delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has urged Japan to completely and thoroughly destroy its abandoned chemical weapons (ACWs) in China without further delay, according to the Chinese foreign ministry on Monday. The…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (507+ words) Last autumn, when Sanae Takaichi became Japan's first female prime minister, her rise carried something close to an electric charge. Her approval rating initially topped 70 percent. Her long-cultivated image as a conservative star seemed to promise a new chapter in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (658+ words) Japan's Ministry of Defense on Monday submitted a record fiscal year 2027 budget request of roughly 8.9 trillion yen ($55.6 billion), marking yet another increase in defense spending and underscoring the accelerating pace of Japan's military buildup, experts said. They warned that the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (166+ words) China Daily PLA conducts combat readiness patrols around Huangyan Island The Chinese People's Liberation Army Southern Theater Command on Wednesday organized maritime and air forces to conduct combat readiness patrols in the waters and airspace surrounding China's Huangyan Island, according…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (172+ words) On Sept 2, 1945, the Japanese government formally signed the Instrument of Surrender, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday that the postwar international order must not be challenged. China urges the Japanese authorities to face up to history…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (135+ words) According to the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation, during World War II, the Japanese colonial authorities forcibly sent some 1,200 to 2,000 women from Taiwan to military "comfort stations" in various war zones, where they were reduced to sexual slavery as "comfort women…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (662+ words) In July, Manila tried to tie the hollow 2016 South China Sea arbitral award to its defense modernization agenda, as if a legally void ruling could be minted into ships, aircraft, visiting forces and bargaining power. August has shown how quickly…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (219+ words) China urged Japan on Monday to severely punish a Japanese Self-Defense Forces officer who intruded into the Chinese embassy while carrying a knife and to conduct a thorough investigation and take corrective measures, after the officer was dismissed from service....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (399+ words) Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi said, in a TV Asahi program aired on Tuesday, that he cannot be "optimistic" that strained China-Japan ties will improve at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen in November, adding that…...