Japan
May 18, 2013
The United States and Japan have reduced the alert levels for their destroyers in a further sign that the military threat from North Korea is ebbing away.
May 14, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei at a meeting on May 13 to cooperate in countering China's growing maritime ambitions.
May 12, 2013
With oil consumption in the Asia-Pacific region increasing more than 30 percent since 2000, Malaysia has been bolstering its role as an energy consumer and regional hub for...
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
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...
April 26, 2013
The military chiefs of Japan and the United States on April 26 reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate closely on defense measures in order to deal with threats of missile and ...
April 25, 2013
Japan and Russia expect to clinch up to 20 deals, launch an investment fund and reopen talks on a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending ...
April 25, 2013
The top U.S. military officer told American troops based in Japan on April 25 that "the best way to avoid war is to prepare for it."
April 25, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama's administration on April 24 notified Congress it will start free-trade talks with Japan, bringing the world's third-largest economy into U.S....
April 23, 2013
Xi Jinping has taken his call for a "great renaissance of the Chinese nation" into the foreign diplomacy arena.
April 20, 2013
WASHINGTON--U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Japan's deputy prime minister on April 19 that the United States is committed to the defense of Japan against the threat posed ...
April 18, 2013
The standoff over sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands appears to be impeding plans for a trilateral summit between Japan, China and South Korea.
April 18, 2013
BEIJING--China called on Japan on April 18 to stop sending jets up against Chinese aircraft after Japan said it had scrambled its fighters twice as often in the past year amid...
April 17, 2013
Myanmar's charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made rare comments on April 17 on sectarian violence in her nation, but said she was "not a magician" and will not be...
April 17, 2013
A legal battle is continuing over a unique collection of Chinese seal designs that went missing in Japan in 2011, raising concerns over the future of bilateral cultural...
April 17, 2013
Japan’s population has dropped by a record 284,000.
April 15, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on April 15 denounced North Korea for heightening tensions with its “highly provocative rhetoric” and agreed with U.S. Secretary of State John...
April 14, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on April 14 stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons.
April 14, 2013
WASHINGTON--The United States is fully prepared to defend Japan and South Korea in response to a possible missile launch by North Korea, Ashton Carter, U.S. deputy secretary of ...
April 13, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, starts a week-long visit to Japan on April 13 at the invitation of the...