Heavyweights clash as election of hawkish PM Sanae Takaichi and US policy unpredictability change calculus in region ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could constitute “a survival-threatening situation” for Japan, ...

It all started when Japan's new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, suggested that if China attacked Taiwan then Japan could ...

A spat between China and Japan over Japanese Premier Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan comments showed no signs of abating on Wednesday ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sparked a diplomatic spat with China over remarks last week that a hypothetical ...

Takayuki Kobayashi, the ruling party's policy chief, urged the government on Tuesday to expel Xue if Beijing showed no effort ...

Japan criticised a Chinese diplomat on Monday for "extremely inappropriate" remarks seemingly directed at Prime Minister ...

Japan said on Monday it had complained to China about "extremely inappropriate" remarks made by one of its diplomats towards ...

Kazuhiro Suzuki also urged Australia to help strengthen “joint deterrence” with Japan in what he described as “turbulent” ...

Takaichi’s remarks stirred a firestorm, but her later clarifications highlight the limits on Japan’s involvement in a Taiwan ...

Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have dramatically soured, with nationalist rhetoric in China and an apparent threat of ...