The World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body has issued a ruling that broadly backs the arguments of Japan and the European Union over the Canadian province of Ontario’s preferential treatment for local firms in promoting renewable energy. The final decision issued Monday by the Appellate ...

Asia-Pacific finance chiefs vowed to work together to further local growth during the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting, but acute friction among the region’s three largest economies — China, Japan and South Korea — cast a shadow over this ambition. With no signs of ...

China will probably use its growing might to bully Japan but is unlikely to enter a Cold War-style confrontation with the U.S., a think tank says.

“The evolution of political thought in this relatively isolated island nation during the period in question is unique to the point of being somewhat freakish.” This gives a reader pause. Freakish? The judgment is historian Hiroshi Watanabe’s in “A History of Japanese Political Thought, ...

The government was closely monitoring developments Tuesday following the deadly explosions during the Boston Marathon, with police stepping up security at key locations in major cities around Japan. “Our country is watching the situation with keen interest,” Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said. According to ...

Canberra on Friday welcomed the International Court of Justice’s decision Thursday to schedule three weeks of public hearings in The Hague from June 26 on Australia’s case against Japan’s so-called research whaling. “We will now have our day in court to establish, once and ...

Tokyo and Washington conclude preparatory negotiations over Japan's entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, allowing the U.S. to keep tariffs on Japanese autos.

Australia is to fire the opening salvoes in a legal battle before the United Nations highest court in June aimed at stopping Japan’s whaling operations in the Antarctic Ocean. “The International Court of Justice . . . will hold public hearings in the case ...

Senior officials from Japan, China and South Korea on Thursday ended their first round of talks on reaching a free-trade agreement, according to South Korea’s chief delegate. “We discussed the scope of negotiations . . . and administrative details like the timetable of negotiations,” ...

North Korea's military places its "strategic" rocket units on a war footing, with a fresh threat to strike targets on the U.S. mainland, Hawaii and Guam, as well as South Korea.