Huge underwater volcanic explosions at Hunga-Tonga and Hunga-Ha'apai have disrupted communications, transportation and left the island nation without a clean water supply.
The name changes and other acts of aggression are seen as part of broader hardening in tone and tenor aimed at intimidating neighboring democracies.
The former prime minister is clearly pushing Tokyo to continue the policy approach towards China which he steered during his long tenure as head of government.
Kishida is displaying much bolder leadership and decision-making on China-related and other issues since taking the reigns of government.
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.
Separating fact from hype, the review takes a deeper look at how Japan has treated infectious disease patients over the years, and how this relates to...
Heavily compromised cross-strait relations pose a threat to Japan, whose national security is intrinsically linked with that of Taiwan.
The call for “reclaiming lost historical Chinese territories” — reiterated at many central conferences of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and self-defined — is at the...
The new project brings together the greatest swordsmiths of this era, all of whom have been designated as master smiths, to build the first modern Gobankaji...
Whiting has known baseball stars, wrestlers, politicians, media moguls, mafiosi, con artists, journalists, and countless average Japanese people. He writes about them all with the immediacy...
Sea trials of the IAC-1 carrier signal India’s determination to join other regional partners in securing peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region and defense of...
These days, Hitoshi Nakama’s fishing boat is shadowed by a Chinese Coast Guard empowered by a new Chinese law that authorizes shooting at foreign vessels.