Russia
May 18, 2013
HANOI, Vietnam--A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American...
May 09, 2013
WASHINGTON--The head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency says that the Obama administration has discussed declassifying key data on U.S. missile defense in order to provide it...
May 01, 2013
WASHINGTON--Japan has gone on a diplomatic offensive to counter China's growing military presence in the Asia-Pacific region at a time when relations between the two Asian...
April 30, 2013
MOSCOW--Diplomatic maneuvering is still expected over Japan’s imports of Russian liquefied natural gas, despite a broad agreement on bolstering economic cooperation at an...
April 30, 2013
MOSCOW--Russia and Japan said on April 29 that they would revive talks on resolving a territorial dispute that has prevented them signing a treaty formally ending their World...
April 29, 2013
MOSCOW--Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin met in the Russian capital on April 29 to release a joint statement announcing the resumption of negotiations...
April 29, 2013
Around the 1960s, the Japanese government started to use the term “Northern Territories” to refer to Kunashiri, Habomai, Shikotan and Etorofu islands off the coast of...
April 29, 2013
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. said April 28 that it will export state-of-the-art cancer therapy equipment to Russia.
April 27, 2013
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado--The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's...
April 26, 2013
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia--Japan’s presence is fading fast on Shikotan, an island northeast of Hokkaido claimed by Tokyo, as Moscow pushes patriotic education and economic...
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 24, 2013
An internal study by Soviet scholars concluded that Moscow was legally obligated to return the Habomai islets and Shikotan to Japan, a position that is completely at odds with...
April 18, 2013
Marubeni Corp. said April 18 it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Rosneft, Russia's largest national oil company, for a liquefied natural gas project in the...
April 17, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will head a large delegation of industry executives to Russia at the end of this month as part of an initiative to crack open the Russian market, and...
April 09, 2013
MOSCOW--Russia said on April 9 the G8 was in agreement in rejecting North Korea's recent provocative behavior and urged all sides to pursue diplomacy to calm down the...
April 04, 2013
MOSCOW--Russia said on April 4 that North Korea's disregard for U.N. restrictions was unacceptable and that its decision to pursue a nuclear program radically limited the...
April 04, 2013
JCG Corp., a Japanese engineering company, and French oilfield services company Technip S.A. have won a contract for a liquefied natural gas plant in central Russia, the...
March 25, 2013
Contrary to their pledges for cooperation, China and Russia have different purposes in the Asia-Pacific region although they are in similar circumstances. Japan should calmly...
March 23, 2013
MOSCOW--Chinese leader Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of relations with Russia as a counterweight to U.S. influence by visiting Moscow on his first foreign trip as...
March 22, 2013
MOSCOW--Decorated with Chinese paintings and red silk armchairs, a huge business complex on the edge of Moscow is the kind of enterprise China's new leader Xi Jinping wants to...