3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (513+ words) President William Lai (賴清德) met with the Japanese cross-party parliamentary group “Diet Members’ Association for Peace and Stability in the Taiwan Strait,” with both sides calling for closer Taiwan-Japan cooperation, the Presidential Office said yesterday. During the meeting on Tuesday,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (409+ words) Drones are unlikely to fundamentally alter the military balance across the Taiwan Strait, despite their growing prominence in recent conflicts, an Australian security expert said today. "I don't think drones are going to change the China-Taiwan military balance," said Sam…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (612+ words) Refits to Chinese nuclear submarines to carry JL-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles would put much of the US in striking distance, Taiwanese defense analysts said in a report commissioned by the Mainland Affairs Council. Researchers from National Defense University’s Graduate Institute…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (378+ words) Kumamoto Prefecture Governor Takashi Kimura thanked Taiwanese for donating more than NT$300 million (US$9.47 million) to support communities affected by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck the Japanese prefecture on July 28. Kimura recorded a video message thanking people in Taiwan for…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (313+ words) A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers, including one from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party, yesterday headed to Beijing to meet with Chinese officials for the first time since ties between the two Asian rivals deteriorated after Takaichi’s comment on…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (203+ words) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has inherited a lot of things from her mentor, the late prime minister Shinzo Abe: Her support base, conservative credentials, and even her favored slogan of “Japan is back.” Takaichi should put a little distance…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (384+ words) Japan yesterday said it had protested against Russia’s notification that Moscow would conduct missile tests off disputed islands visited by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month. “We lodged a protest in response to the notification about the plan to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (654+ words) North Korea yesterday launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the sea, South Korea’s military said, a day after Pyongyang shrugged off a US decision to scale back military drills with Seoul in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy. About…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (359+ words) Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) today said the government "respects" different views in Japan regarding senior officials' visits to a controversial Tokyo shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including World War II war criminals, but also hopes Tokyo…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (287+ words) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi yesterday stayed away from the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, apparently to prioritize diplomatic relations with China and South Korea, as Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its surrender in World War II. Takaichi mourned the victims of…...