With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone ...

Beijing is piling heat on Japan’s prime minister in a diplomatic standoff, even appealing to the U.S. — as a fellow World War ...

China and Japan are two of Asia’s most powerful nations and the region’s biggest trading partners. Yet centuries of intense ...

Takaichi's stubborn refusal to retract her words as demanded by China does not show her strength, but her cowardice to face ...

In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to ...

Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is not backing off from comments about Taiwan that enraged China. Many of Japan’s voters like her stance.

WHEN, in her first speech before parliament recently, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi strongly alluded to Japan ...

In 1972, it finally recognised the People’s Republic of China and agreed to the “one China principle”, in effect severing ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) told US President Donald Trump on Monday that Taiwan’s “return to China” at the end of World War II was a key part of Beijing’s vision for the world order. Here is a ...

Japan and China's shared history is fraught with tension and those tensions may have risen to a level not seen in decades.

Chinese diplomats airing hawkish views, known as "wolf warriors", have returned to the global stage, drumming up criticism of Japan's prime minister in countries that suffered from its military ...

Beijing has frozen youth exchange programmes with Tokyo amid the fallout over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ...