The image of a historic Japanese farmhouse, priced lower than a used car and nestled in the serene countryside, has become a viral sensation. From the Wall Street Journal to CNBC, ......
Japan's Defense Ministry has announced a new recruitment target aimed at significantly increasing the share of female personnel in the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) by the mid-2030s, a......
Japan's inheritance tax can turn even a large estate into a financial burden, especially when wealth is tied up in property. The reported case of late actress Miho Nakayama has ren......
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Furukawa Keiji recently visited Taiwan to attend the ninth Yushan Forum. On March 30, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded......
The global security landscape in 2026 represents a profound fiscal test alongside traditional military strategy. The staggering costs of modernizing aging nuclear arsenals are plac......
A landmark urban development project set to rewrite Japanese architectural history is moving forward at the site fronting Tokyo Station's Nihonbashi exit. Torch Tower — the centerp......
"The Lobby Used to Be So Packed You Could Barely Move. Now It Feels Like a Different Hotel."At a resort hotel in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, Chinese guests once accounte......
Every time a Taiwanese user asks an AI chatbot what to eat for breakfast and receives the answer "hamburger," a small but telling distortion occurs. The AI is not malfunctioning — ......
Turn on a Japanese news channel during a major criminal case, and viewers will often see a suspect escorted into a police vehicle in real time — no blurring, no pseudonym. The susp......
Now entering its third week, the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran shows no signs of resolution. Debates continue to swirl in Washington over whether to force open the St......
Donald Trump has never been known for diplomatic restraint. But even by his own standards, what unfolded in the Oval Office on March 19 was striking. Seated beside Japanese Prime M......
Most people who have visited Tokyo in recent years share a common feeling: Japan has become less expensive. Whether it's sushi, cute trinkets, or electronics, the prices seem quite......
The Japanese government has launched a legal review to determine whether it can deploy the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The ......
PayPay, the Japanese fintech titan backed by SoftBank, made a resounding entrance onto the Nasdaq on March 12, marking one of the most significant U.S. listings by a Japanese firm ......
China's newly approved 15th Five-Year Plan features a sharper, more aggressive tone toward Taiwan, replacing long-standing rhetoric with a vow to "resolutely strike" against Taiwan......
Yusuke Anami (阿南友亮) is a professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Law, born in 1972, and holds a doctorate from Keio University's Graduate School of Law. His research fo......
After U.S. and Israeli forces launched precision strikes against Iran, Chinese military aircraft that had been appearing almost daily in airspace around Taiwan nearly vanished. Tha......
China's "Two Sessions" wrapped up this week with a striking image: a near-empty presidium at the People's Liberation Army delegation session, the visible toll of Xi Jinping's (習......
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Friday that Japan will independently tap into its national strategic petroleum reserves as early as Monday, citing escalating confl......
Taiwan's team was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic preliminaries. That should have been the story. Instead, Premier Cho Jung-tai's (卓榮泰) brief trip to Tokyo to watch the ......
Behind a first-inning grand slam from Moon Bo-gyeong and a power display from its American-born heritage players, South Korea powered past the Czech Republic in World Baseball Clas......
Taiwan is facing an unprecedented tourism imbalance with mainland China, as Taiwanese travelers increasingly flock across the strait while Chinese tourists remain largely absent fr......
China has significantly escalated its diplomatic feud with Japan, weaponizing its supply chain by imposing targeted export controls on 40 Japanese defense and industrial entities. ......
The Regional Realities Behind Japan's Conservative LandslideThe Liberal Democratic Party's overwhelming victory in Japan's February 2026 House of Representatives election revealed ......
Japan has introduced sweeping changes to its permanent residency screening system, adopting a stricter interpretation of what it means for foreign residents to fulfill their “publi......
Taiwan Emerges as Victim in Supreme Court Tariff Ruling While China BenefitsThe U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision striking down President Donald Trump's tariffs as illegal will ......
As Taiwan and the United States formally signed the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART), attention has turned to the broader trajectory of the U.S.–China tariff dispute ahead of a ......
A growing number of Chinese migrants who “ran” to Japan in recent years are now preparing to move again, according to Japan-based journalist and authorMasutomo Yudai (舛友雄大). Some h......
A historic election landslide for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sparked intense debate among policy experts in Taiwan, with scholars warning that Tokyo's potential shi......
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has secured a historic landslide in the House of Representatives election, winning 316 seats—more than two-thirds of the chamber. Sanae Takai......
Following a landslide election victory for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, markets are bracing for a shift toward expansionary fiscal policy focu......
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Saturday congratulated Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on her party's victory in Japan's House of Representatives election, describing th......
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) scored a crushing victory in the 51st House of Representatives election, securing 316 of the chamber's 465 seats as results were final......
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, secured a historic victory in the February 8 House of Representatives election, decisively clea......
By 2025, that bet had taken on a much clearer shape.In its latest 2025 Energy White Paper, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) spells out, for the first time, a ......
As Japan approaches voting day for its 51st House of Representatives election on February 8, the campaign has entered its final stretch—known locally as “Golden Week.” Yet for obse......
On his first overseas tour as U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, Elbridge Colby used visits to Japan and South Korea to outline what officials describe as a doctrine of “f......
Japan's February 8 lower house election has become more than a routine parliamentary contest. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has deliberately turned it into a personal referendum on......
Chinese Military Purge Signals Shift in Taiwan Invasion Risk AssessmentBeijing's recent announcement of investigations into Zhang Youxia (張又俠) and Liu Zhenli (劉振立) has sparked inte......
Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi has issued a definitive ultimatum regarding her political survival, pledging immediate resignation sho......
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan's largest utility company, announced it will restart a reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on the evening of January 21. T......
China released shocking demographic data this week showing newborn numbers have been cut in half in less than a decade, underscoring a deepening population crisis across East Asia ......
Japanese Prime MinisterSanae Takaichi will hold a press conference this evening (19th) to express her position on dissolving the House of Representatives at the beginning of the re......
As China takes a more confrontational stance towards Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration, traditionalSino-Japanese diplomatic relations have stalled as Tokyo pu......
Construction of TSMC's second plant in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto has suddenly halted for unknown reasons, according to Nikkei Asia. Nikkei compared recent imagery of ......
A retired three-star Japanese general has warned that China’s expanding missile arsenal is widening a strategic imbalance in the Indo-Pacific, placing Japan and Taiwan under growin......
Japan is reportedly considering exporting its domestically developed "Type 03" medium-range surface-to-air missile system to the Philippines, according toJapanese media outlets suc......
Many Chinese tourists to Japan have recently pretended that they are from Taiwanto avoid discrimination, amidst a spike in Sino-Japanese tensions following Japanese Prime Minister ......
A phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump on November 24 revealed significant discrepancies between the two countries' priorities.China's Xi......
