President Donald Trump's seeming ambivalence about the value of allies has created a sense of urgency among nations with ...

Japan's net external assets rose to an all-time high at the end of 2025, but the total was surpassed by China's, which ...

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed ...

TOKYO — Japan fell behind China to rank as the world's third-largest net creditor in 2025, marking a further decline in ...

Japanese trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said Saturday he had a brief exchange with his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao on the ...

Motoyuki Hattori was promising young scholar in Japan, held a position at the nation’s most elite university, and had career prospects that were far more solid than those of his peers.

The U.S.-China summit held in Beijing on May 14, 2026 has made it clear what shape U.S.-China relations will take for the ...

R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n ...

In its annual white paper, the ministry outlined its stance on a range of issues, from tensions around Taiwan to the intensifying rivalry between China and the United States. Repeated joint sorties by ...

Takaichi has said Japan remains open to dialogue with China, but Beijing has not responded to her overtures. Read more at ...

TOKYO (AP) — Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea sought trilateral cooperation on common ground in areas like aging, declining births, natural disasters and the green economy at a ...