Japan is positioning itself as a focal point for defense cooperation among U.S. partners.

Takaichi’s overwhelming victory during the February election suggests China’s coercive approach might be counterproductive.

Neither the Japan-U.S. alliance nor the Sino-Japanese economic relationship will completely unravel overnight. However, the ...

Weeks into the job, Japan’s new leader has come face-to-face with what it means to cross China’s red line on Taiwan. In the days since Sanae Takaichi suggested her country could respond militarily if ...

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed there (see chart). The role reversal was later confirmed by the bond ...

Japan is threatening China militarily which is "completely unacceptable", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, after Japan said that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar ...

After spending years acting as though the Chinese subjugation of Taiwan was an inevitability, President Xi Jinping just got a wake-up call. Something deadly has just entered the Taiwan Strait, and it ...

By Joe Cash and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI, June 1 (Reuters) - China's Coast Guard on Monday said it had conducted "law ...

China has banned exports of dual-use items to Japan that can be used for military purposes, according to a commerce ministry statement on Tuesday, Beijing's latest move in reaction to an early ...

On Tuesday, January 6, China targeted Japan with new export restrictions on dual-use technologies, including rare earth elements, permanent magnets, and other critical minerals required for the ...

On November 7, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responded to questions in the Japanese parliament by saying that “warships with the use of military force” against Taiwan could lead to a ...