China has been moving strategically in response to the latest spat with Japan, with a view of reshaping the world order in ...

The Cairo Declaration of 1943, jointly issued by Allied leaders, clearly states that all the territories Japan stole from ...

Despite the Potsdam Declaration and Japan's pacifist constitution, which emphasize preventing a return to militaristic aggression, Japan has in recent years downplayed crimes of military aggression, ...

The post-World War II international order was built upon a fundamental consensus between the victorious and the defeated. For ...

Eighty years ago, the world won a great victory in the war against fascism. At the cost of tens of millions of lives, ...

Yet as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the great war, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has chosen to move against the tide of history. Speaking before the Diet, she linked ...

Readers discuss how addressing risk factors can save lives and minimise loss, the turnout of the Legislative Council election, and the Japanese prime minister's controversial remarks on Taiwan Feel ...

Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi claimed during a Diet meeting that a "Taiwan contingency" could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, implicitly suggesting that ...

The United States and Japan’s vague, ahistorical version of the “one China” policy is inflaming tensions with Beijing.

Beijing has accused Tokyo of attempting to "mislead the public and hope that somehow the issue would resolve itself", after Japan's foreign minister selectively quoted its position on Taiwan from a ...

As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines. Sitting just 110 kilometers ...

The Japanese government has spelled out its position on Taiwan - although only in part - based on the 1972 document that normalised diplomatic ties to ease tensions, but insists the Taiwan issue ...