Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension.

Shared concerns over China have drawn Manila and Tokyo together. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 willingness to project military power on China’s doorstep.

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

When China broke out one of its “big guns” in last year’s trade war with the US – an array of export controls on rare earth elements – it helped spur a temporary truce in the pitched conflict between the two economic superpowers. After Beijing ...

By Yi-Chin Lee and Ann Wang KEELUNG, Taiwan, May 28 (Reuters) - A new ferry service to serve booming tourism between Taiwan and Japan began on Thursday on a ship that could be pressed into service to evacuate people on southern Japanese islands in the event of a war in the region.

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed there (see chart). The role reversal was later confirmed by the bond markets,