The US would have you believe it is showing leadership in Asia. Yet the nation displaying real resolve is Japan.

The shift toward a Trumpian style of arm-twisting diplomacy was laid bare at this year’s IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, traditionally a forum for the U.S. and its partners to air their grievances with China — and project a unified front against Beijing.

A MERICA’S artificial-intelligence boom has put the rich economies of north-east Asia into overdrive. Taiwan’s output is growing at a blistering 14% annual pace, thanks to soa

Japan and the Philippines on Thursday agreed to strengthen their defense cooperation by accelerating talks on Japanese weapons sales and intelligence sharing at a time of fears over China's military activity in Asia.

Japan has launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of key steel products shipped from China, South Korea and Taiwan, adding to signs of trade stress in a sector suffering from global overcapacity.

R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n

While the United States reaffirmed its commitment to the Indo-Pacific, it was Japan that delivered the clearest warning on China's growing military assertiveness at Asia's premier security forum