When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...

Korea-Japan agreement on "comfort women" victims This photo taken Dec. 28, 2025, shows a statue of a seated girl symbolizing ...

Foreign Affairs published an essay last month arguing that" nuclear armament by Canada, Germany and Japan could stabilize the ...

North Korea said Japan's ambition for possession of nuclear weapons should be "thoroughly curbed," state media KCNA reported ...

A meeting between the leaders in January would come as relations between Tokyo and Seoul remain stable after a warming of ...

Japan, China and South Korea have held a health ministerial meeting and agreed to continue strengthening cooperation in the ...

The undersea tunnel has been floated periodically by South Korean politicians for decades. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO -- Major political changes dominated the news in both Japan and South Korea in 2025, after elections led to fresh leadership of differing viewpoints on contentious historical issues that gave ...

Japan entered a super-aged society in 2006, 12 years after becoming an aging society, becoming the first country in the world ...

Japan and South Korea separately scrambled warplanes after Russian and Chinese jets conducted joint patrols in the skies near the two countries amid intensifying tensions in the region. Chinese and ...

The statement comes after an official at Japan’s prime minister’s office said Tokyo should ‘possess nuclear weapons’ ...

Taiwan’s stock market has outperformed markets in Japan and South Korea for the past four years because of the strong growth in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, a particular strength of Taiwan’s ...