The Japanese entertainment industry has become increasingly reliant on China in recent years. China is the world’s ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

In the end, there was no honeymoon period. Just two weeks ago, Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi was shaking hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Now, relations between the two Asian nations ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (left) meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, Nov. 15, 2024. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan As Asia ...

A heated row over Taiwan has seen China issue travel warnings and tell Tokyo it would face a "crushing" military defeat if it ever intervened in Beijing's dispute with Taipei. How far is China willing ...

TAKAICHI SANAE was bound to rile China sooner rather than later. Japan’s new prime minister (pictured) is an outspoken nationalist with a reputation as a China hawk. As it turned out, it took less ...

Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, appears to be a modern "Iron lady" in the mold of Margaret Thatcher with all the controversy that entails. However successful her ...

China’s foreign ministry on Thursday demanded Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retract what it called her “egregious” remarks related to Taiwan, warning that otherwise Japan “must bear all ...

China has warned its citizens against traveling to Japan as it escalates a backlash over comments by the country’s prime minister about the island of Taiwan. The dictum is Beijing’s most substantive ...