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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said earlier this month that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could be deemed "a situation threatening Japan's survival."
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 22, 2025
China takes spat with Japan over Taiwan to U.N. and vows to defend itself
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi committed "a grave violation of international law" and diplomatic norms, China's U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong wrote in a letter.
Tourists board a bus after sightseeing in Tokyo's shopping district Ginza on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 22, 2025
Japan businesses brush off worries over China tourists
With less Chinese customers, "it's become a bit easier for Japanese shoppers to visit, so our sales haven't really dropped," a shop manager said.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, on Oct. 28.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 22, 2025
Japan set to lean on U.S. allies for support if China escalates
For now, Tokyo has stuck to its usual playbook: avoiding tit-for-tat retaliation, keeping communication channels open and hoping tensions cool over time.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rejected China's demands for her to retract her comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo's stance on a major regional security crisis remains unchanged.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 21, 2025
Takaichi rejects China's demand to retract Taiwan remarks
There is no change to Tokyo’s stance on how it would respond to a major regional security crisis, the prime minister says.
For Hokkaido, the most important inbound tourism markets are Taiwan, South Korea and China.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 21, 2025
Japan’s dispute with China may impact Hokkaido tourism this winter
As Japan and China continue their war of words, the potential impact on Hokkaido’s tourism industry this winter season has officials increasingly concerned.
In the first official comment from the State Department since tensions between Japan and China flared up, the U.S. said it would remain committed to Japan’s defense.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 21, 2025
U.S. remains committed to Japan’s defense, State Department says
It is the first official comment from the State Department since tensions between Japan and China flared up.
Japan-China relations are worsening as Beijing tries to punish Japan over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks, possibly strengthening support for her tougher China policy at home.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2025
China’s pressure campaign against Japan is a mistake
China seeks to intimidate Japan and encourage it to distance itself from Taiwan. The Japanese government must not bend.
A satellite image shows a deck cargo ship, loaded with vehicles, heading toward the beach near Jiesheng, Guangdong, China, in July.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 21, 2025
China's civilian shadow navy practices for invasion of Taiwan
An investigation reveals China is experimenting with techniques that could accelerate the landing of troops and equipment onto multiple Taiwanese beaches simultaneously.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One to depart Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Oct. 29.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2025
The U.S. has Japan’s back in any dispute with China, Glass says
The U.S. ambassador has taken to social media several times since the dispute erupted to criticize China and Chinese officials.
China is using threats, diplomatic pressure, economic measures and manufactured media narratives to attack new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and influence Japanese politics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 20, 2025
Seeking good relations with Xi’s CCP is a fool’s errand
China has a history of favoring Japanese leaders, going back at least to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in the 1970s, who are inclined to comply with its "red lines."
Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung takes questions from the members of the media in Taipei on Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2025
Taiwan president shows support for Japan in China dispute with sushi lunch
President Lai Ching-te, in pictures on his social media feeds, showed himself eating a sushi lunch of yellowtail from Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture and scallops from Hokkaido.
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
China ratcheted up the pressure on Tokyo as a prolonged dispute with Beijing over the Japanese leader's remarks on Taiwan appeared inevitable.
Taiwan's Chiangkong missile system in Taipei on Sept. 18. The U.S. has confirmed that it will sell Taipei an advanced air defense missile system worth almost $700 million — the same type battle-tested in Ukraine.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
U.S. confirms sale of $700 million air defense system to Taiwan
This is the second weapons deal with Taipei in a week, with only Australia and Indonesia now operating the similar systems in the Indo-Pacific.
In U.S. President Donald Trump's view, wars abroad have left the U.S. military overstretched, and his answer has been to push allies in Europe and Asia to shoulder more of the burden for their own defense.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
U.S. retreat as world’s top cop under Trump opens door to regional strife
The good news is a great-power war remains unlikely.
Director-General of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Masaaki Kanai (left) and Chinese Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs Liu Jinsong depart after a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 18, 2025
Japan seeks to placate China as strained relations move beyond political realm
Tokyo has warned nationals living in China to be on alert for anti-Japanese sentiment, while a Japanese animated film's release date in the nation was postponed.
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2025
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
The ancient strategy resurfaced after Prime Minister Takaichi said Japan might need to respond militarily if China forced Taiwan’s unification.
The book cover of Taiwan's civil defense handbook at a printing house in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on Friday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 18, 2025
Taiwan to give security handbook to all households as China threat rises
The handbook includes for the first time instructions on what to do if citizens encounter enemy soldiers and states any claims of Taiwan's surrender should be considered false.
A worker checks the printed book cover of Taiwan's civil defense handbook at a printing house in Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 14, 2025.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2025
Taiwan to further tighten export controls for dual-use technology
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Taiwan has updated its export control regime to prevent Taiwanese high-tech goods from being illicitly used for military purposes.
A Chinese tour group in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Sunday. China has advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by remarks from Tokyo's new prime minister about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Japan sends senior official to China to cool boiling tensions
Masaaki Kanai, a top Foreign Ministry official, will be looking to explain that there has been no change in Japan’s existing position on the Taiwan issue.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Nov. 7.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Announcement of Japan-China survey results postponed amid diplomatic spat
This is the second time that the announcement of the latest survey results has been postponed at the request of the Chinese side.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Takaichi rejects China's demand to retract Taiwan remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rejected China's demands for her to retract her comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo's stance on a major regional security crisis remains unchanged.
¥21.3 trillion stimulus package approved by Cabinet
The Cabinet is expected to submit an extra budget bill to finance the package to parliament, which is in session until Dec. 17.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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