Map shows Japan's nuclear power as world's biggest plant nears restart

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world’s largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

Japan's greater oversight of foreign investments unlikely to interrupt M&A boom

Japan's plan to give authorities the power to order foreign investors to retroactively divest acquisitions is aimed at ...

China and Japan, uneasy neighbors in East Asia, are at odds again

They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history ...

South Korea-Japan summit set for Jan. 13 in Japanese PM's hometown

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will visit Japan for a two-day, one-night trip starting Jan. 13, the presidential office ...

Japan's coalition partner head signals snap election may be nearing

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi appears to have moved to a “new stage” in considering whether to call a snap election ...

China announces another new trade measure against Japan as tensions rise

China has escalated its trade tensions with Japan by launching an investigation into imported dichlorosilane, a chemical gas ...
The Economist

Why is Japan souring on foreign workers and tourists?

Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this ...

The surprising reasons Japan's streets stay clean without trash cans

Japan’s lack of public trash cans often surprises visitors, but cultural norms and safety concerns explain why travelers ...

More diplomatic and economic tensions surface between China, Japan as a bumpy week ends

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a ...

China says ban on exports of dual-use items to Japan to only hit military companies

China's export ban on dual-use items to Japan will only affect military firms, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, ...