The LDP and Komeito water down, then shelve, the Diet resolution condemning China’s serious human rights violations. Shameful.
China hopes Japan will be swept up into its propaganda campaign. Athletes face a dilemma, but it's not the government's job to impose a sporting ban.
Indeed, it’s hard to imagine anyone less suited for dealing with the Japanese. Still, there have been other apparently poor choices that turned out to be...
The Japanese government has taken pre-emptive measures to prepare for a rising curve of infections should it occur.
The only way to relieve the hardships of the North Korean people and develop the country is to abandon dictatorship, release all of the abductees, and...
There has been growing concern over the safety of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, 35, after she accused China’s former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing...
Death of the brother of Yaeko Taguchi, abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, ends the dream of a family reunion, but work to bring home...
The city’s proposal to give foreign nationals in Musashino, including students and trainees the right to vote in local elections, also appears to be unconstitutional.
In a contest between artistic freedom and a dictatorial regime, world-renowned photographer Chen Man gave in to pressure to promote the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology.
Japan’s new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, is a compromised man, distrusted by many in public and his party for his family’s “friendship” with China.
The only country that is going all out to recreate the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere? The People’s Republic of China (PRC), to dominate Asia.
Asking for international cooperation to get back its citizens who were abducted by North Korea. Japan should first show its firm stand on other human rights...