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Troubled history fuels Japan-China tension

By Christopher Bodeen and Mari Yamaguchi | April 22, 2014 - 6:23am

Strolling through China's sprawling memorial to a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops, a 64-year-old retired teacher said the incident remains an open wound.

World

Japan PM sends offering to war shrine

April 21, 2014 - 10:46am

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent a religious offering to a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead including executed...

World

Japan PM Abe urges dialogue with China, Korea

By Elaine Kurtenbach | January 6, 2014 - 3:55pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he wants to explain to leaders in China and South Korea about his visits to the Yasukuni...

World

Commentary: Japan's upcoming leadership needs long-term, pragmatic view in diplomacy

December 16, 2012 - 2:00pm

Whichever party wins Japan's parliamentary elections held on Sunday should devise its foreign policy with a long-term and pragmatic prospective so that the country can repair its strained ties with neighbors...

Tokyo's cherry blossoms officially in bloom

March 28, 2011 - 3:05pm

The Japan Meteorological Agency says Tokyo's celebrated cherry blossoms are officially in bloom.

Asia stops to remember end of World War II

August 16, 2010 - 9:03am

Asia paused on Sunday to remember Japan's surrender to the allied forces which ended World War II 65 years ago, as the Japanese prime minister apologized for wreaking suffering on the region and the South Korean...

China-Japan-South Korea to discuss North Korea, wider ties

September 28, 2009 - 9:53am

SHANGHAI (AP) — China, Japan and South Korea are considering how to respond to North Korea's recent conciliatory gestures as they hold annual talks Monday among their foreign ministers in Shanghai.

Is a jingoistic Japan on the rise under Abe? Or is this aging powerhouse no longer dangerous?

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | November 24, 2006 - 12:00am

TOKYO, Japan – It is a delight to be back in Tokyo, one of the cities of my journalistic youth, after an absence of more than five years.

Opinion

Abe’s ‘ambiguity’

By MY VIEWPOINT | By MY VIEWPOINT By ricardo V. Puno Jr. | October 10, 2006 - 12:00am

According to Katsuyuki Yakushiji, chief editor of the Japanese political magazine, Ronza, published by the Asahi Shimbun, political ambiguity is the stance new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe adopted once he assumed...

Opinion