
Airborne Aggression: Tokyo Summons Chinese Envoy
Chief Cabinet Secretary said Japan scrambled its F-15s over concerns about Chinese airspace violations.

Chief Cabinet Secretary said Japan scrambled its F-15s over concerns about Chinese airspace violations.

Tokyo will push for greater energy self-sufficiency, albeit with only one of the seven reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa scheduled to resume operations.

While Diaoyu/Senkaku seems like the focus for conflict, Beijing could be using the friction to test the new and hawkish PM in Tokyo.

Shooter Tetsuya Yamagami was said to have held a grudge against the Unification Church.

With a coalition agreement reached, the new Japanese leadership pledges reforms aimed at strengthening the economy and ensuring long-term responsibility for future generations.

The leader of the right-wing Liberal Democrats pledges a tough approach to migration and tighter controls on foreign nationals.

After the 2011 tsunami, the nation shut down all of its nuclear reactors.

Beijing’s airspace incursion and war games near Japan prompt Tokyo to brand China its greatest strategic threat.

Nippon Kaigi is leading a movement to enlarge the role of the emperor and reaffirm a conservative nationalism.

If we consider the origin myth of sumo, we may reflect on how the war between the celestial and earthly realms was tamed by the sport and turned into an arena structured by higher principles.