While Japan won’t walk away from its alliance with the United States, the linchpin of the Asian country’s diplomacy and ...

A high-stakes confrontation unfolded between China and Japan near the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands as both countries’ ...

Amidst US tariff pressures, Japan navigates a complex relationship with China, balancing economic opportunities with ...

BEIJING/TOKYO--Japan’s new foreign minister raised concerns on Wednesday about stabbing attacks on Japanese nationals in China and about Chinese military activity during his first phone call ...

Kishida’s government in December adopted new security strategy, involving significant military buildup ... interest against China in the disputed South China Sea. Japan has had a longstanding ...

The US assesses that China is gearing up to be ready for ... including a huge ramping up of Japan’s military drone programme – which is almost non-existent at present. Defence officials ...

Japan needs to firmly refuse US President Donald Trump’s calls for Tokyo to increase what it pays to keep American military bases in the country, a former Japanese foreign minister said ...

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the ...

Notably, Japan will also send troops for joint training with US marines and Australian forces. This comes amid concerns over a series of recent encounters involving China’s assertive military.

Meanwhile, in August last year, a Chinese spy plane violated Japanese airspace over the East China Sea off islands in Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The intrusion was the first by a ...

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region ... Russian and domestically produced military hardware amid rising warnings of ...