June 19, 2013
SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif.-- Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces teamed with U.S. Marines in Southern California on June 17 for amphibious training partly aimed at sending a message to an increasingly aggressive China and beefing up the SDF's emergency response capabilities.
June 19, 2013
Amid calls for her resignation and growing outrage in Fukushima Prefecture, the ruling party’s policy chief on June 19 apologized for saying the Fukushima nuclear disaster has not directly caused any deaths.
June 19, 2013
The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea will likely meet on the sidelines of ASEAN meetings in Brunei from late June to early July, signaling a thaw in frosty ties between the two countries, sources said.
June 19, 2013
The Cabinet said a U.N. committee recommendation urging the government to resolve a controversy concerning women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II is "not legally binding and does not require the state party to follow it."
June 19, 2013
A Japanese official in diplomatic normalization talks with South Korea in 1953 accused the country of “arrogance,” five days after negotiations broke off because of his remarks justifying Japan’s colonial rule, a document showed.
June 18, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed signs of retreating from his aggressive strategy to revise Japan’s pacifist Constitution after the public showed little enthusiasm for the issue and a potential ally plummeted in popularity.
June 17, 2013
WARSAW--In a first-ever summit, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on June 16 agreed with leaders of four central European nations to advance cooperation in the energy sector in an attempt to boost exports of nuclear reactors.
June 16, 2013
OSAKA--A professor who may head a proposed Osaka history facility that would include the World War II "comfort women" issue as an exhibition criticized Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto for his controversial remarks that they were a necessary part of war.
June 15, 2013
WASHINGTON--A former Obama administration official criticized Japanese leaders for recent remarks on Japan's role in World War II and other historical issues, resulting in "the worst possible environment" for discussions on Japan's security.
June 15, 2013
SAN DIEGO--A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft has made an unprecedented landing on a Japanese naval vessel off the California coast.
June 14, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will shore up his diplomatic team by appointing a diplomat who worked closely with him on the North Korean abduction issue a decade ago as the top bureaucrat at the Foreign Ministry, sources said.
June 14, 2013
With a crucial Upper House election only a month away, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party wants voters to know that it will be campaigning on restarting the nation's idled nuclear reactors.
June 14, 2013
The government's white paper on energy for fiscal 2012 makes no mention of the policy set by the previous administration of scrapping reliance on nuclear power in the 2030s.
June 13, 2013
Voices within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have grown not only more hawkish but also more homogenized, forcing dissenting doves like Makoto Koga to find other ways to make themselves heard.
June 13, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hit back at former high-ranking Foreign Ministry official Hitoshi Tanaka's criticism of the current administration's "rightward shift."
June 13, 2013
The White House says President Barack Obama has spoken with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about North Korea's nuclear program and a territorial dispute with China.
June 13, 2013
WASHINGTON--The National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of phone and Internet data says he NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and in mainland China since 2009, with targets including public officials, businesses and students in the city as well as the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
June 12, 2013
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will require special inspections to determine if reactors can be operated beyond the 40-year limit to be implemented from July.
June 12, 2013
Government and security officials in parts of Asia have been sending sensitive information and policy documents via e-mail services offered by U.S. web giants, and concerns are spreading that these may have been monitored and collected by the National Security Agency (NSA).
June 11, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not have to look far to find an opponent to his policy of exporting nuclear plants as a pillar of Japan's economic growth strategy.