Sanae Takaichi, Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, is an unabashedly conservative icon of Japanese politics. Her election is set to change East Asia.

South Korea played host but all eyes were on China's Xi Jinping at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders on Friday, where he met his Canadian, Japanese and Thai counterparts after securing a fragile trade truce with U.

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-Pacific nations grapple with an increasingly complex ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces significant foreign policy challenges just days after taking office

Eighty years after the end of World War II, a harrowing cinematic portrayal of Japanese wartime atrocities during the 1937 Nanking massacre has reignited memories of historical trauma that resonate deeply across China. With its emotionally charged ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Japan sought to cool down tensions over a chafing territorial dispute on Friday, with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping telling an envoy from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he was committed to developing bilateral ties.

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 countries that Japan fought and their historical narratives ...

The two leaders focused on regional security and trade, and did not mention long-standing differences over history and maritime territory.

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destruction Trump ...