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Documents reveal Japan on forcing Chinese laborers

[2014-01-22 15:12]

Photo taken on Jan 10, 2014 shows a report by Japanese Military Police of Kwangtung Army about the escape of forced Chinese laborers on Sep 22, 1943, in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin province.

Air zone 'not aimed at civilian flights'

[2013-11-29 00:43]

China's newly announced air defense identification zone does not target "normal" flights by international airliners, as Chinese fighter jets patrolled the zone.

Caroline Kennedy visits Japan's disaster-struck regions

[2013-11-26 07:31]

Kennedy, on Monday, visited Japanese tsunami evacuees living in temporary housing two years and a half after a massive wall of water devastated areas of the coast of northern Japan.

US ambassador to Japan visits Yokota Air Base

[2013-11-21 16:12]

Newly appointed US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy speaks to US military personnel stationed at Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo November 21, 2013.

Japanese business leaders visit China

[2013-11-20 08:07]

More than 100 influential Japanese entrepreneurs are visiting China in search of business opportunities brought about by Chinese economic reforms.

US envoy to Japan Caroline Kennedy meets emperor

[2013-11-20 00:00]

Newly arrived US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy presented her credentials to Japan's emperor on Tuesday, traveling by horse-drawn carriage into the Imperial Palace in downtown Tokyo.

Abe honors heroic Chinese student

[2013-11-14 09:14]

Shanghai-born Yan Jun (L), 26, receives a certificate of appreciation from Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his rescue work in saving a nine-year-old boy from a typhoon-swollen river in Osaka on September 16, 2013, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo November 13, 2013.

Strained ties dissolve hope for trilateral conference

[2013-11-08 00:12]

A meeting of senior diplomats from China, Japan and the ROK failed to agree on holding a trilateral summit amid Japan's tensions with its neighbors.

Japan charts course for collective self-defense

[2013-11-07 00:52]

Japanese Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense.

Japan's policies questioned

[2013-11-04 00:49]

Moscow expressed displeasure with the expanding US-Japanese alliance in the Asia-Pacific region.

Antiquated ideas source of Abe strategy

[2013-10-29 00:24]

The outdated thinking of "the zero-sum game" has prompted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to frequently label China as a troublemaker.

Forum urges stable relations for China, Japan

[2013-10-28 00:29]

A stable China-Japan relationship is in the interests of the two countries, Asia and the world, participants in the Beijing-Tokyo Forum agreed on Sunday.