Tokyo this week signalled renewed interest in negotiations with a personal letter from Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to ...

China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has ...

Across Japan, there are signs that the collective mood—long shaped by pangs of regret over World War II—is changing as tensions with rivals, especially China and South Korea, escalate.

Combining Japan’s raw materials and equipment with Taiwan’s manufacturing capabilities would be the ideal fit for the ...

Last year, Japan's decision to start releasing waste ... said the issue was an example of commercial nationalism - "the kind of grass-roots, bottom-up, entrepreneur-led and -driven adoption ...

In the 20th century, Bushido concepts were expressed both through the educational system and by propagandists to fuel Japanese nationalism, as the country pursued its international ambitions and ...

Dower argues that fatigue and disillusionment with wartime nationalism made the Japanese readily willing to accept this doctrine. Much in agreement with General Douglas MacArthur, the leader of ...

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