Trump, Xi Eye Mar-A-Lago Summit
The United States and China are finalizing plans for a summit between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago this April, but diplomats are struggling to remove last-minute stumbling...
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Tillerson Seeks New North Korea Plan On Seoul Visit
Washington's top diplomat was to hold talks in South Korea on Friday after China challenged him to come up with a new way to confront the North Korean nuclear stand-off. Secretary of State Rex...
Tillerson Calls For ‘new Approach’ To North Korea, No Details
U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday the escalating threat from North Korea's nuclear program showed a clear need for a "new approach," although he stopped short of detailing what...
Two Decades of Efforts To Disarm NKorea ‘have Failed’
Two decades of diplomacy aimed at curbing North Korea's nuclear ambitions have failed and a new approach is needed, the United States' top envoy said Thursday. During a visit to Japan at the start of...
US Envoy In Japan To Reassure On North Korea Threat
The United States' top diplomat was in Tokyo on Thursday to reassure allies that Washington stands with them in the face of the accelerating missile threat from North Korea. Secretary of State Rex...
Top US Envoy Begins Asia Tour Amid North Korea Crisis
Washington's top diplomat was to fly into Tokyo on Wednesday to begin a first tour of Asian capitals under the shadow of North Korea's nuclear posturing. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has promised...
Japan Plans To Send Largest Warship To South China Sea, Sources Say
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War...
Tillerson To East Asia In Shadow of North Korea Threat
With North Korea's drive to field a nuclear-armed missile rapidly emerging as President Donald Trump's first foreign crisis, his top diplomat is heading to a nervous region. US Secretary of State Rex...
Saudi King Arrives In Tokyo For Four-Day Visit
Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived in Tokyo Sunday, making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the oil-rich nation in nearly five decades. The 81-year-old king, who was greeted by Japan's...
Japan Recalls Tsunami, Nuclear Tragedy Six Years On
Japan paused Saturday to mark six years since a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated its northeastern coast, as more than 100,000 people remain unable or unwilling to return...
Japan To Withdraw Troops From South Sudan
These Japanese peacekeepers who arrived in November were mandated to use force Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that the Japanese government will end its participation in a UN peacekeeping...
Japan Troops To Withdraw From South Sudan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in May after five years of a peacekeeping mission. "As South Sudan's...
Tokyo Hit By New Olympic Stadium Cost Fears
Already under fire over soaring expenses, Tokyo's 2020 Olympic organisers on Friday sought to downplay fears that further ballooning costs could hit the trouble-cursed main stadium. Amid media...
For Japan’s Nuclear Refugees, Insults and Rejection
Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that followed. But crueller still were the insults and stigmatisation she faced in the...
Japan PM To Visit Brussels With EU Hoping For Trade Deal
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Brussels this month, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday, as the EU aims to close a free trade deal with Tokyo this year. Abe will...
Japan Court Strikes Down Ban On ‘mannequin Mob’ Protest
Japanese political dissenters chalked up a small victory Wednesday when a court struck down a city's move to ban a "mannequin flash mob" anti-government protest. The Yokohama District Court nullified...
China Calls On N Korea To Suspend Missile and Nuclear Tests
China has proposed that North Korea suspend its tests of missile and nuclear technology to “defuse a looming crisis”. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that in exchange, the US and South Korea could...
China ‘comfort Women’ History Buried As Brothels Fall
With its red-painted window frames and sooty facade, the empty two-storey building on Gongping Road is typical of many of Shanghai's pre-World War II structures -- but this one houses dark memories....
Missile Tests Put North Korea On Trump’s Front Burner
President Donald Trump is facing his biggest foreign policy challenge yet after North Korea fired a ballistic missile salvo in a supposed training run for an attack on US bases in Japan. Pyongyang...
North Korea Is Training For An Attack On US Bases In Japan
Nuclear-armed North Korea said Tuesday its missile launches were training for a strike on US bases in Japan, as global condemnation of the regime swelled. Three of the four missiles fired Monday came...