Israel’s ambassador to Japan is typically invited to Nagasaki’s annual ceremony marking the anniversary of its atomic bombing. But this year, the city’s mayor is withholding the invitation, in a …
Shinobu discovered the documents in the US National Archives and Records Administration and the National Security Archive. They cover negotiations from 1958 to 1960, primarily involving Japanese foreign minister Aiichiro …
Japan has protested after a senior US politician justified the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, although observers say the comments by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham are …
Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote. Public anger over …
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” Walberg said. Walberg spokesman Mike Rorke said on Saturday the eight-term congressman’s answer was in direct response to a question about …
Best picture winner Oppenheimer finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grass roots marketing push and concerns about how its nuclear theme would be received in …
“That is likely to be for fear of pushback from the local residents as much as an effort to avoid provoking China,” he told This Week in Asia. Quoting unnamed …
The film received wide release in July 2023 but, given its controversial nature in Japan, no release date for the country was initially set. ‘Barbenheimer’ is big on social media …
China’s first domestically built cruise ship is set to begin its maiden voyage on January 1, offering travellers from the mainland a way of getting overseas while still not entirely …
The governor of Japan’s Nagasaki Prefecture is at the centre of a political storm, after it emerged that he skipped a meeting of the nation’s governors to attend a football …