'One China' means different things to Taiwan and China. Professor Watanabe examines why that is with perspectives from inside Taiwan, China, Japan and the US.
The Taro Aso visit reaffirms the importance Japan places on bilateral relations with Taiwan along with the message, "A Taiwan crisis is a crisis for Japan."
"Embrace your Japanese nationality with pride. Each and every one of you young individuals can be a bridge between Japan and Taiwan" — Akie Abe in...
Former assistant chief cabinet secretary Nobukatsu Kanehara looks at why this is the first mention of Taiwan in a joint statement since 1969 and the greater...
This small city of Ishigaki, with just under 50,000 people, has been on the forefront of China’s daily threats and nearly had to lead Japan’s foreign...
Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, who died on July 30, was known as the “Father of Democracy in Taiwan” and an avowed friend of Japan. Hundreds...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga joined U.S. President Donald Trump in calling for further strengthening of the Japan-U.S. alliance in their initial phone call, which took...
In a ceremony on August 17, the city of Hargeisa, capital of the de facto state of Somaliland on the eastern edge of the African...
The United States Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has just concluded a visit to Taiwan, which included a key meeting with Taiwan President...
I arrived in Taipei, Taiwan, as The Sankei Shimbun bureau chief in January 1991, shortly after the outbreak of the Gulf War. Lee Teng-hui (1923-2020)...
Lee Teng-hui may be gone, but the sense of self-identity among the residents of Taiwan that he did so much to create remains as...
Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first democratically elected president, has died at the age of 97. The former leader passed away on July 30 at Taipei...
