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Bilateral relations between China and Japan may be tense, but life goes on for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in Japan. “Politics and daily life are very separate,” says Zhang, a mother of three.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Dec 15, 2025
Japan-raised Chinese children navigate complex cultural terrain
Despite bilateral tensions, daily life goes on for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese people who call Japan home — including the children and teenagers who have grown up here.
People wait outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building in Hong Kong on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Jimmy Lai’s supporters queue in Hong Kong overnight for verdict
Two counts — of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security — carry prison terms of up to life in prison for Lai, a British citizen.
Lo Kin-hei (center), chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, speaks at a news conference in Hong Kong on Sunday where it was announced that the city's oldest pro-democracy party has formally disbanded.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 14, 2025
Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party announces dissolution
The Democratic Party was founded in 1994, near the end of British colonial rule, when Hong Kong’s leading liberal groups merged.
Ely Ratner, former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 14, 2025
Ex-U.S. official calls for collective defense pact in Indo-Pacific
Ratner, a former assistant defense secretary in the Biden’s administration, urged Japan to overcome constitutional issues in order to exercise the right to collective self-defense.
Military radar towers on Yonaguni, the westernmost inhabited island of Japan.
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2025
Japan builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China
As tensions between China and Japan rise, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines.
Soldiers stand on the stage during the memorial ceremony to mark the 88th anniversary of the 1937 Nanking Massacre at the Nanking Massacre Museum in the city now known as Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu province, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2025
China holds low-key Nanking Massacre memorial despite Japan tensions
Chinese leader Xi Jinping did not the ceremony, despite a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan.
China's Liaoning aircraft carrier sails through the Miyako Strait near Okinawa on its way to the Pacific in April 2021.
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2025
China aircraft carrier flotilla headed home, one week after Japan radar incident
Aircraft from the Liaoning carrier were involved in what Tokyo said was a “dangerous” incident that saw Chinese military jets lock their radar on Japanese fighters.
Jimmy Lai speaks during an interview in Hong Kong in June 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2025
Verdict in trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai set for Monday
Lai, 78, is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong’s national security law, which Beijing imposed following pro-democracy protests in 2019.
Volunteers sit in front of flowers left by mourners for the victims of last month’s deadly fire at an apartment complex, on Monday in Hong Kong's Tai Po district.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 12, 2025
Hong Kong leader says fire probe expected to conclude within nine months
The high-rise blaze killed at least 160 people and displaced thousands of residents.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Nov. 7. Although Takaichi has refused to recant her comments on Taiwan, she said in parliament later last month that she learned her lesson and will avoid speaking about specific scenarios.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 12, 2025
Takaichi’s Taiwan comment that sparked China spat apparently unscripted
The discrepancy between the prepared response and the prime minister’s actual comment suggests she veered off-script from official policy.
The Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy shifts focus to the Western Hemisphere and Asia while largely maintaining the underlying limits of America's security policy established under the Biden administration.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 12, 2025
How to read Trump’s National Security Strategy
What I see as the essence of NSS 2025 is that this document appears to be a product of compromise intended to bridge the differences that surfaced within the Trump administration.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at a news conference on Thursday in Washington.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 12, 2025
Trump can balance Japan alliance and China despite row, White House says
The U.S. and Japanese defense chiefs also spoke over the phone, expressing “grave concern” over Beijing’s recent military actions.
China’s recent radar lock-on of Japanese F-15s from fighters launched from the carrier Liaoning underscores a rising pattern of coercive pressure that Tokyo and its partners must answer with firm vigilance and clear messaging.
EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2025
Lock-on incident shows China will continue to test Japan
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi disputed China’s claim that it had given warning about the exercises, arguing that there was “insufficient information to avoid danger.”
China is advancing a revamped World War II narrative to justify its regional claims while portraying Japan as a threat to the postwar order.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Dec 12, 2025
Is China guardian of the ‘postwar international order’?
China is advancing a revamped World War II narrative to justify its regional claims while portraying Japan as a threat to the postwar order.
Flags flutter as soldiers participate in a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing in September. The maiden flight of the unmanned Jiutian drone mothership has highlighted its advances in unmanned aerial vehicles capable of unleashing weaponized swarms.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 11, 2025
China launches massive aerial drone carrier in show of prowess
The world’s largest drone mothership highlights Beijing’ advances in unmanned aerial vehicles capable of unleashing weaponized swarms.
Taiwanese Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu poses for a photo during an interview with The Japan Times in Taipei in March.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 11, 2025
Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister made secret trip to Israel
It was unclear if Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu touched upon Taiwan’s new multilayered air defense system, which is partly modeled on Israel’s air-defense system.
Guardia di Finanza — the Italian tax police — carry out a search at a textile firm during a recent investigation, in the Tuscan city of Prato, Italy.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Dec 11, 2025
Is sabotage unraveling the trial of Chinese crime gangs in Italian fashion?
The many mishaps that have occurred — from the disappearance of documents to the resignation of interpreters — have led a senior prosecutor to suspect so.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives for a party leaders' debate in the Upper House of parliament in Tokyo on Nov. 26. Takaichi has refused to back down from recent Taiwan-contingency remarks that were fiercely criticized by China.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 11, 2025
China’s heavy-handed attack on Takaichi is backfiring
Japan has never formally accepted that Taiwan is part of the PRC and Taiwan has never, for one day, been under the Communist Party’s control.
B-girl Royal, whose real name is Guo Pu, trains at a breaking studio in her hometown of Pingyi, China, on Nov. 25.
MORE SPORTS / Breaking
Dec 11, 2025
Breakout star: teenage B-girl on mission to show China is cool
Royal is part of a growing Chinese force in breaking.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a news conference with his Australian counterpart at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 11, 2025
Japan looks to international community to lower temperature in China row
Gaining the understanding of other nations on Japan’s stance “is of the utmost importance,” the government’s top spokesman said.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world’s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka’s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo’s in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Liveability Index.
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Long-stalled maglev line finally gets green light from Shizuoka Prefecture
Environmental concerns relating to the construction of Central Japan Railway’s high-speed maglev line had contributed to years of delays for the project.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.

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