Fake news about a Chinese nuclear submarine accident in the Taiwan Strait was reportedly traced back to a controversial Chinese residing in the US.
The same social media accounts spread rumors about the Abe assassination, pro-Russian theories on the Ukraine invasion, and COVID-19 conspiracies.
As far as Japan is concerned, there is no territorial dispute over the Senkakus. Any claims to the islands by other countries can only be described...
On June 23, the pro-China president of the Republic of Kiribati, Taneti Maamau, was re-elected. Maamau had suddenly switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China in September 2019 — news...
On July 5, Yuriko Koike, the first female governor of Tokyo, won re-election by a wide margin. As widely reported, she received 3,661,371 votes, compared...
‘Wuhan virus sees Olympic football qualifiers moved — Xinhua’ Consider the above headline used by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua for its original...
The spring and summer months of 2019 have seen a spate of articles about the allegedly high rates of “virginity” among Japanese, especially 40-year-old...
Foreign pundits and journalists occasionally invent stories about Japan. But more typically they take something that has been said by Japanese and exaggerate it to...
On Thursday, February 28, in Taipei, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen had to hurry back to her office for an interview with The Sankei Shimbun...
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has asked for direct talks with the Japanese government on cooperation in the areas of cybersecurity and other national security...
The last weeks of 2018 saw a spate of articles in the English language press reporting that the Japanese “birth rate” was at the...
By The Sankei Shimbun Claiming “technical errors,” The Asahi Shimbun has made inaccessible two articles in English from August 2014, it was...
