Therefore, Japan must uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter including peaceful dispute resolution, avoid ...

Driven by lessons from World War II and China’s expanding presence, Japan’s strategic orientation is pivoting eastward into the Pacific.

The agreement by the eleven Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member nations on April 22 to include Japan in their ongoing negotiations was a significant breakthrough, both for advancing the ...

Editor's note: The ongoing discussions about Japan's "Lost Decades," a period of prolonged economic stagnation spanning 30 years, have sparked debates on whether Japan indeed lost momentum for three ...

I don’t know who Hiroko Tabuchi is but he wrote one hell of an article for The New York Times. In the space of three pages he succinctly traces the history of the Japanese banking crisis and draws ...

In his report to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held in Beijing last month, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Hu Jintao said emphatically that the theme ...

Japan is flush with national pride this week, thanks to Kei Nishikori, the tennis phenom who knocked off seemingly indestructible Novak Djokovic to reach the U.S. Open finals and become the first ...

Japan’s economic story is a rollercoaster of triumph and cautionary tales. From the ashes of World War II to global dominance in the 1980s, and then a prolonged stagnation, Japan’s trajectory offers ...

Wandering the streets of Tokyo’s Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; ...

Boeing (BA) faces new delays in the delivery of the Dreamliner. GM (GM) slows or shutdown production in U.S. factories due to a shortage of parts. Toyota (TM) expected to lose $73 million for every ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. Yet when a mega-quake hit Japan last March, sparking a huge tsunami, it was ...