The National Transportation Safety Board will assist the South Korean government in investigating the crash of an Asiana Airlines cargo plane, officials said Friday.
Responding to North Korean and Chinese threats, Japan realigns its defense policy. CNN's Kyung Lah explains.
A Japanese coast guard crew member has confessed to leaking a video of a boat collision that sparked a recent diplomatic battle between China and Japan, officials said Wednesday.
A summit involving Japan and China was in jeopardy Friday after a Chinese foreign ministry official accused Japanese diplomats of making statements that violated China's sovereignty, according to the Chinese state-run news agency.
Japan's main opposition party has filed a protest with search-engine giant Google, urging it to delete from its mapping service the Chinese name for a cluster of disputed islands.
Three Japanese nationals returned home on Friday afternoon after being freed by China a day earlier, the Kyodo news service said.
China on Thursday released three Japanese nationals after they admitted illegally entering a Chinese military zone and expressed regret, state-run media said.
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says relations with China are "extremely important," but Beijing's demand for an apology and compensation over the detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain is "completely groundless and is utterly unacceptable for Japan."
The husk of a dead volcano protruding from the East China Sea has become the battleground between the two mightiest economies in Asia.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in New York Tuesday for the United Nations General Assembly, urged Japan to release a detained Chinese boat captain "immediately and unconditionally," China's state news agency Xinhua reported.
China warned Sunday that it would take "strong counter measures" against Japan if a Chinese fishing captain held since last week is not released.
Japanese in China are on edge heading toward the weekend amid outrage over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing captain.
China on Tuesday continued its diatribe against Japan over the arrest of a Chinese fishing captain and demanded his immediate release.
Fourteen Chinese fishermen returned home Monday, after being freed by Japan, state-run media reported.
Japan on Monday released 14 crew members of a fishing trawler that crashed into two Japanese patrol boats last week, but the captain remains in custody, officials said.
Hundreds of pro-Tibet demonstrators protested in Tokyo on Tuesday as Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived for the first state visit by a Chinese president in nearly a decade.
Hot, humid and swept by typhoons, Shanghai is the brightest star on the oriental horizon.
Japan's Foreign Minister on Tuesday described as "beyond comprehension" China's offer to hold summit talks if Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi halts visits to a controversial war shrine, a news report said.
A powerful typhoon in the East China Sea near Taiwan has intensified, with winds of 148 kilometers per hour (92 miles per hour) and gusts up to 185 km/h (115 mph), the CNN Weather Center says.
When thousands of Chinese rallied in the commercial city of Shanghai, pelting the Japanese consulate and smashing some cars and restaurants along the way, they were seething over a troubled and unresolved history.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for Beijing and Tokyo to calm their flare-up, even as plans are afoot for more anti-Japanese protests in China this weekend.
Relations between China and Japan continue to cool after Beijing attacked Tokyo's decision to issue drilling rights in a disputed area of the East China Sea.
Japan says it will allow companies to test drill in a disputed area of the East China Sea, a move likely to further anger Beijing at a time of strained ties.
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