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Japan ex-China envoy: Tokyo erred on islands row
Japan's former envoy to China says his country erred in choosing to buy islands claimed by both Japan and China last fall, infuriating Beijing, and ...
Chinese envoy: Japan dispute can be 'controlled'
A top Chinese diplomat expressed hope Friday that Beijing's dispute with Japan over islands claimed by both countries can be "controlled" soon, and ...
Japan gives letter to China's Xi in island dispute
A senior envoy handed China's leader a cordial letter from Japan's prime minister Friday in the highest-level contact between the sides since tensions ...
Japan talk of warning shots heats up China dispute
Japan says it may fire warning shots and take other measures to keep foreign aircraft from violating its airspace in the latest verbal blast between ...
Japan's Nikkei jumps on Abe's stimulus package
Japan's Nikkei stock index jumped Friday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a massive spending package intended to breathe life into the ...
Tokyo protests to China over 4 ships near islands
The Japanese government summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to protest four Chinese maritime surveillance ships that spent about 13 hours in waters ...
New Japan PM: Saving economic crisis top mission
Shinzo Abe took office as Japan's seventh prime minister in six years Wednesday and vowed to overcome the deep-rooted economic and diplomatic crises ...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...
After landslide, Abe says Japan has difficult road
After leading his conservative party to a landslide victory that will bring it back to power after a three-year hiatus, Shinzo Abe stressed Monday ...
Nationalist Shinzo Abe is likely Japan's next PM
The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for ...
Conservative party favored as Japanese vote
Japanese were voting Sunday in parliamentary elections that were expected to put the once-dominant conservatives back in power after a three-year ...
China submits oceanic claims to United Nations
China provided the United Nations with detailed claims to waters in the East China Sea on Friday, apparently padding out its legal argument in an ...
North Korea gears up to launch long-range rocket
North Korea is gearing up to fire a long-range rocket this month in a defiant move expected to raise the stakes of a global standoff over its missile ...
China hits back at Japan PM's statement on islands
China on Thursday assailed Japan's prime minister as obstinate and wrong for saying his nation won't compromise in their island dispute, as Japanese ...
Japan, China move to dampen island dispute
Japan and China are taking small steps to dampen a bitter dispute over a group of small islands in the East China Sea following an intense but ...
US begins test flights of MV-22 Osprey in Japan
The U.S. Marines conducted their first test flights of the MV-22 Osprey aircraft in Japan on Friday after months of protests over safety concerns.
Nationalism may rise under Japan's next gov't
One is a former prime minister known for his nationalistic views. A second is a hawkish former defense chief. And a third is the son of Tokyo's ...
6 Chinese boats near disputed islands
The Japanese government says six Chinese surveillance ships have entered Japanese waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea. In response, the ...
China sends patrol ships to islands held by Japan
A territorial flare-up between China and Japan intensified Tuesday as two Beijing-sent patrol ships arrived near disputed East China Sea islands in ...
Clinton urges feuding Asian neighbors to cool it
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Asian countries embroiled in simmering territorial disputes to work together to ease rather than ...
Russia, Japan agree to move ahead on LNG project
Russia and Japan are putting energy cooperation ahead of a longstanding territorial dispute as they move ahead with a long-awaited liquefied natural ...
Media: Japan gov't agrees to buy disputed islands
The Japanese government has agreed to buy several privately owned islands in the East China Sea that are controlled by Japan but also claimed by ...
China is tough against Tokyo but reins in activism
Wu Qingjun is no dissident. In fact, this activist's pet issue — China's claim over a set of islands controlled by Japan — aligns him squarely with ...
Iran clings to Asian oil market as sanctions bite
When Iran welcomes leaders to a world gathering next week, few will get a grander reception than India's prime minister. As Tehran tries to offset the ...
Japan's PM meets protesters, won't stop reactors
Japan's prime minister met for the first time with leaders of weekly anti-nuclear protests Wednesday but rejected their demand that two recently ...