Thirty years ago in its heyday Japan’s economy was bigger than the whole of Asia combined. Today it is the size of just three ...

But in 2022 Japan and China traded places. China’s inflation rate fell below that of its smaller, greyer neighbour and stayed ...

The increasingly popular service is part of a broader “companionship ​economy” emerging in China, which includes paid ...

When China broke out one of its “big guns” in last year’s trade war with the US – an array of export controls on rare earth elements – it helped spur a temporary truce in the pitched conflict between ...

Japan has slipped to third place among the world's largest net creditors in 2025, overtaken by China, marking another decline in global rankings after losing the top spot to Germany in 2024, according ...

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 ...

Washington has spent decades talking about the U.S.-Japan alliance in military terms. Carrier groups. Missile defense.

As of 2025, 29 Chinese cities had entered the “trillion-yuan GDP club.” This group includes major urban centers such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and others. They serve not only as engines of ...

In response to an inquiry regarding a joint statement issued by Japan and the Philippines claiming that the two sides decided ...