Tag: Japan

Obama: US-Japan treaty applies to disputed islands

Obama: US-Japan treaty applies to disputed islands

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 1:03 pm

A Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer fires an anti-submarine rocket during a fleet review off Sagami, south of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Japan’s prime minister battles post-World War II constitutional military restrictions

Austin Bay · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

A protester holds a placard during a rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. In Japan and elsewhere, there are concerns over making politically difficult market-opening concessions without reassurance that Obama will have the "fast track" authority to get congressional approval for TPP. Critics of the plan have balked at granting such power for a trade deal whose contents have been kept largely secret as a precondition for joining. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Japan, US struggle to bridge gap on freer trade

Elaine Kurtenbach · April 22, 2014 11:07 am

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea on March 26. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Liberal approach to disarmament makes a victim of Ukraine

Thomas Sowell · April 22, 2014 4:00 am

President Obama departs late Tuesday for a trip to Asia, his fifth since taking office. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

President Obama’s theoretical ‘pivot’ to Asia

Charles Hoskinson · April 22, 2014 4:00 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks on his way to meet a delegation of US representatives at the premier's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, April 21, 2014. Japan's Prime Minister Abe has sent a religious offering to a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead including executed war criminals, a center of tension with Japan's neighbors. Abe's offering Monday at the Yasukuni Shrine marks the April 21-23 spring festival, one of the shrine's key annual events. But the move suggests he will not visit Yasukuni ahead of President Barack Obama's visit beginning Wednesday. (AP Photo/Franck Robicon, Pool)

Japan PM sends offering to war shrine

Mari Yamaguchi · April 21, 2014 11:13 am

In this Feb. 11, 2014 photo, a visitor stands near sculptures at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The Tokyo shrine and the memorial hall in Nanjing, as Nanking is now called, are physical embodiments of divergent views of history that still strain China-Japan relations, 70 years after the war. They complicate America's objective of maintaining peace and stability in the Pacific, as President Barack Obama starts a 4-country Asian tour in Japan this week. The implications are potentially serious, particularly over contested uninhabited islands called the Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

National Security

Troubled history fuels Japan-China tension

CHRISTOPHER BODEENMARI YAMAGUCHI · April 21, 2014 9:38 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 15, 2014 file photo, Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during the 26th whale meat tasting event in Tokyo. Japan will target fewer whales when the Pacific hunt begins next week and will limit next season's Antarctic whaling to observation. The decisions came Friday, April 18, after the International Court of Justice ordered Japan last month to suspend Antarctic whaling. The court said the program was commercial, not scientific as Japan had contended. Hayashi said Friday that the Pacific catch target was being slashed to about 210 from the current 380. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Energy and Environment

Japan to hunt fewer whales in Pacific this season

Mari Yamaguchi · April 18, 2014 12:41 pm

Asian stocks mostly higher after mixed US earnings

Asian stocks mostly higher after mixed US earnings

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 11:38 pm

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, right, and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., are part of a congressional delegation toÃÂ Japan, South Korea and ChinaÃÂ this week. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images file)

House members to travel to Asia for talks on trade, security

Sean Lengell · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

Supporters of whaling eat meat of whale during a meeting of the 26th support whaling event in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan pro-whaling lobby vows to continue hunts

Mari Yamaguchi · April 15, 2014 1:54 pm

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Australian Customs Service shows what the Australian government says is the slain carcasses of a minke whale and her calf being hauled aboard the Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru 2 in Antarctic waters. The international court ruling against Japanese whaling last week may have given the government a convenient political out. In a March 31 ruling, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Japan to stop granting permits for its Antarctic whaling program, which allowed an annual cull of about 1,000 whales. (AP Photo/Australian Customs Service, File) NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

AP Analysis: Japan anti-whaling ruling saves face

Mari Yamaguchi · April 12, 2014 9:39 am