A Chinese coral fishing boat captain was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fishing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the Japan Coast Guard said. The captain allegedly tried to flee despite an order to stop, the Coast Guard added. The Chinese captain and 11 other ...
Senior diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China will hold talks Thursday in Seoul to discuss regional and international issues of common interest, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Kyung-soo, Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama and Chinese ...
South Korea has no plans to seek a treaty with Japan on exchanging confidential military information, South Korea’s Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. “There has been no progress made in discussing the signing of a treaty on exchanging confidential military information with Japan, and ...
Obese diabetic mice given an experimental drug designed to mimic a hormone with anti-diabetic effects improved the health of the animals and extended their life span, a study finds.
The government under former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi studied the idea of putting the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea under state control, before three were nationalized in September last year, Yoshihiko Noda, another former prime minister, said Wednesday. “During the time of ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Monday in Indonesia on the sidelines of a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to apparently discuss a range of issues, including a bilateral territorial dispute. The talks in Bali are the fourth ...
China’s growing economic and military might may pose a threat to Japan, but it also works in Tokyo’s favor when it comes to settling a long-standing territorial dispute with Russia, a former high-ranking diplomat told a recent symposium in Tokyo. Kazuhiko Togo, who used ...
The deputy foreign ministers of Japan and Russia met Monday in Moscow, effectively resuming negotiations aimed at resolving a long-standing territorial dispute that has prevented the two countries from signing a post-World War II peace treaty. The two agreed that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
A Chinese scholar affiliated with the military told a nonpartisan group Japanese lawmakers earlier this month that the group of islands at the center of their fierce bilateral dispute is a “core interest” of Beijing, sources said Monday. The scholar from the China Institute ...
The first anniversary of the anti-Japanese protests that flared in China over the Senkakus finds frustration over widening income gaps trumps nationalistic fervor among Chinese.
Japan may soon move to nationalize any unclaimed and unnamed islands in its waters to bolster its territorial claims.
Russian President Vladimir Putin might visit one of the four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan next week, a person affiliated with a group of former residents who just returned from visiting the islands said Monday. Toyama Prefectural Assemblyman Hisayoshi Ono, who headed the group, ...
