China

May 12, 2013
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania--There's a towering presence in the foreign aid landscape in Africa, once the domain of Western donor nations and Japan: It is China.

May 12, 2013
SHANGHAI--Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on May 11 to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension...

May 11, 2013
TAIPEI, Taiwan--Yang Jingtao did what many young, brave Chinese did--he left his home as a teenager to fight the invading Japanese in World War II.

May 11, 2013
There's a certain irony to the fishing pact that Japan signed with Taiwan last month on the joint management of fishing operations in waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands.

May 11, 2013
BANGKOK--Thailand's celebrity baby panda Lin Ping is almost 4 years old now. It's time to move to China, find a mate and have cubs.

May 10, 2013
Sharp Corp. will cut 5,000 jobs, slash the number of directors and advisory positions and shift its production focus under a three-year plan to fully recover from the 2008...
May 10, 2013
SEOUL—Calm responses and increased private-sector exchanges are needed to avoid conflict and repair Japan’s worsening relations with China and South Korea, participants at...

May 09, 2013
SHENYANG, China--North Korean authorities asked their Chinese counterparts to hire North Korean workers withdrawn from the symbolic inter-Korean joint venture in the Kaesong...

May 09, 2013
BEIJING--As if the dispute between Beijing and Tokyo over sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands was not enough controversy, the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper has...

May 09, 2013
BRUSSELS--The European Commission agreed to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China in a move to guard against what it sees as dumping of cheap goods in Europe,...

May 09, 2013
BEIJING--An industry group says China's auto sales rose 13 percent in April despite concern about a weak economic recovery while Japanese brands suffered less severe declines.

May 09, 2013
Three years ago, The Asahi Shimbun ran a story about the discovery of a letter written in "needle characters." A needle was used to make tiny holes on a piece of white...
May 09, 2013
With Japan's relations with China and South Korea highly strained by their respective territorial disputes and history issues, experts and researchers from the private sectors...

May 08, 2013
BEIJING--Signs are growing that the sustained surge in cyberattacks emanating from China is imperiling its relations with the U.S., lending urgency to fledgling efforts by both ...

May 08, 2013
Japanese overwhelmingly prefer South Korea to China, but South Koreans favor China by an almost equally wide margin over Japan, according to a joint poll by private Japanese...

May 08, 2013
WASHINGTON—Beijing’s “improperly” drawn baselines aimed at strengthening its sovereignty claims over waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands are part of a series of...

May 08, 2013
Japan, China and South Korea agreed to beef up cooperation and establish a forum for strategic dialogue to combat air pollution plaguing China during the Tripartite Environment ...
May 08, 2013
Seiko Epson Corp. said on May 8 that its group company, Singapore Epson Industrial Pte. Ltd., has opened a new production and sales site in Zhenjiang, a city in Jiangsu...
May 08, 2013
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced May 8 that the digital instrumentation and control system for nuclear power plants that it developed jointly with China Techenergy Corp....

May 08, 2013
SHANGHAI--BYD is known for electric cars but this year’s flagship model is the S7, a gasoline-powered SUV. It comes with an air purifier, radar to help with backing and...