Japan
April 09, 2013
It's easy to write off North Korean threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile...
April 09, 2013
India and Japan share common values such as individual freedom and human rights. These values, according to Salman Khurshid, India’s minister of external affairs, provide the ...
April 06, 2013
It is said that every minute a person is killed with a weapon somewhere in the world. The treaty on the global arms trade approved by the U.N. General Assembly on April 2...
April 03, 2013
Tokyo and Washington have reached a basic agreement during preliminary talks on Japan's participation in the negotiations for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade...
April 02, 2013
SEOUL--A monk here is leading a petition to hand back an ancient Buddhist statue to Japan that was stolen by a South Korean ring, fighting a widespread view that the...
April 02, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama is leaning toward picking Caroline Kennedy to be the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, a source familiar with the process said on April 1.
March 29, 2013
Japan’s participation in the TPP with 11 other Asia-Pacific nations is a game changer that could bring very positive payoffs for both Japan and the United States, Mireya...
March 26, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea repeated threats to target U.S. military bases on March 26 as Washington and its allies tightened economic sanctions against the isolated country by...
March 24, 2013
The digital age is about more than mobile phones and Internet connections. For social activists and forward-thinking engineers, the true potential of digital media can only be...
March 23, 2013
A Japan-European Union summit next week that was expected to initiate negotiations on a free trade agreement has been postponed due to the financial crisis in Cyprus.
March 21, 2013
Japan and the United States have started talks on operational plans in the case of armed conflict over a group of East China Sea islets claimed by Tokyo and Beijing, Japanese...
March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON--North Korea's development of a nuclear weapon risks provoking an atomic arms race in East Asia, a senior Republican lawmaker warned on March 20.
March 19, 2013
BEIJING--China will hold three rounds of trade negotiations with Japan and South Korea this year and step up talks with other trading partners, the Ministry of Commerce said on ...
March 18, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO--A beaming Alex Rios rounded the bases and reached home to a line of jubilant, jumping teammates eager to celebrate Puerto Rico's first World Baseball Classic...
March 16, 2013
The chants of "Kill Koreans," "Shoot 'em dead" and similarly threatening slogans being shouted at radical demonstrations across Japan are fueling debate over the need to...
March 15, 2013
TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki Prefecture--South Korean monks trying to patch up relations over a Buddhist statue stolen from Tsushima's Kannonji temple got the cold shoulder when they...
March 13, 2013
TAIPEI--Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is taking heat from opposition parties and environmentalists by repeatedly justifying his administration's commitment to nuclear energy ...
March 10, 2013
Two-time defending champion Japan hit a record-tying six home runs on March 10 to overpower the Netherlands 16-4 and advance to the championship round of the World Baseball...
March 08, 2013
GENEVA--Japan placed 14th in tourism competitiveness out of 140 nations and regions in the world, up eight places from the previous evaluation in 2011, according to a report by ...
March 06, 2013
The government has called for greater "transparency" by China over its military amid word that Beijing's budgeted spending on defense will rise by almost 11 percent this year.