Editor's Note: Eighty years ago, the Japanese Emperor read the Imperial Rescript of the Termination of the War, announcing Japan's unconditional surrender to the allied forces in the World Anti-Fascist War. Yet 80 years later, when Global Times reporters conducted in-depth interviews in Tokyo and Nagano, Japan, they...More

It has been one year since Japan began dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean despite broad opposition. So far, some 60,000 tons of water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been discharged as part of Japan's 30-year program to dump around one million tons of nuclear-contaminated wastewater...More

Through a series of provocative actions in the South China Sea in recent years, Japan, a country that does not have any claim in the region, has gradually revealed its ambitions to play a more influential role in the busy waterway. In its latest move, Japan and the...More

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Japan and India on Monday launched their first joint fighter jet exercise, a move analysts said exposed the two countries' growing military ambitions against China under the instigation of the US. The 11-day Veer Guardian-23 aerial maneuvers are scheduled to run until January 26 in the airspace around...More

Editor's Note: Upon the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between China and Japan, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou (Kong) said that the last 50 years, although only a short fragment of the 2,000-year-long history of the two countries' interaction, is undoubtedly a period when...More

Okinawa's incumbent governor Denny Tamaki, the opposition-backed candidate who firmly opposes the relocation of a US military base on the southern island, won a second term in the prefecture's gubernatorial election on Sunday. The election result reflects local people's unchanged repugnance for the heavy and prolonged US troop...More

Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the US military have conspired several times since 2021 to assist Washington in deploying intermediate-range ballistic missiles on Japan's southwest islands in order to achieve "integrated deterrence" against China by strengthening construction of the "first Island chain," a source close to the matter told...More

On the occasion of China holding nationwide commemoration services on Monday for the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, Chinese officials warned that Japan's militarism must not be allowed to revive. While today's Japan appears to pose a growing right-wing threat to its neighbors, and confront China on...More

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move on September 3 that he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure. The next Japanese prime minister will be under intense scrutiny for how he addresses the Taiwan question and China-Japan...More

More concrete evidence of Japanese troop's atrocity of germ warfare during World War II has been made public, as confessions of a commander of the Japanese germ warfare unit to the US after the war were released in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, which also disclosed the shocking secret...More

As a renowned Japanese company profiting in China, Sony has repeatedly crossed the line with various actions that hurt the national pride of the Chinese people. Its founding prospectus emphasizes that one of its founders, Masaru Ibuka, worked to produce new military equipment for the Japanese army during...More

China's annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 exceeded those of all developed countries combined, for the first time since national emissions have been measured, according to a new report from the US-based Rhodium Group. When retweeting the news on Twitter on Friday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg...More

Japan is consuming its reputation as an economic and cultural powerhouse it has strived hard to achieve since the end of World War II, and its efforts to become a political major power and normal country will be questioned strongly by the international community, especially by neighboring countries,...More