China toughened its stance toward Japan on Sunday, sending coast guard vessels near disputed islands and warning Chinese students in Japan about what it described as rising safety concerns. This came ...

FROM THE age of 13, Yang wanted to study in America. Visiting Boston, she envied students she saw lying on the grass reading; that was “how studying overseas should be”. After graduating from Cornell ...

Beijing has frozen youth exchange programmes with Tokyo amid the fallout over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, according to a diplomatic source, raising concern that the ...

While diplomatic tensions between the two countries are not new, both have little to gain from the current dispute subsiding.

Beijing is flexing its military and economic might to show its displeasure with the Japanese leader’s comments about defending Taiwan. But its aggressive approach risks backfiring. By Vivian Wang ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaich shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Japan-China summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Gyeongju, South ...

With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart. By Keith Bradsher and River ...