Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual assessment.

“It is most likely that the [North Korea-Japan] relations would be set gloomier if the Japanese Prime Minister makes a wrong start from the beginning, as it is doing now,” the statement said.

Last Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un marked 10 years in power. Recent observers have focused on nuclear weapons and diplomacy with South Korea and the United States, but there are under ...

Japan Japan's PM offered to meet with Kim Jong Un 'as soon as possible,' North Korea says Relations between the countries have been strained in part because of North Korea's 2002 abduction of 13 ...

Korea-Japan relations can be further strengthened if the two push forward joint ... Ishiba emphasized the U.S.-Japan relations, ... His policies toward China and North Korea are similar to ...

Japan-North Korea relations . Japan’s Struggle ... The mother of Yokota Megumi, the most famous of the Japanese civilians abducted by North Korea, continues to push for her daughter's return.

North Korea and Japan don’t have diplomatic ties, and their relations have been overshadowed by North Korea’s nuclear program, the abduction issue and Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the ...

Twenty years have passed since North Korea officially admitted to abducting Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. Since this admission, Japan–North Korea relations have been cold. Tokyo and ...

Japan’s leader blamed South Korea’s president for the poor state of relations between the two U.S. allies, setting a chilly tone at their first formal meeting in more than a year.

Improving South Korea-Japan relations is a tough challenge for the new prime minister, but the bar may be lower than it is for the abductee issue with North Korea or the territorial dispute with ...

To underscore the celebratory atmosphere surrounding the long-awaited visit by South Korea’s president this week, Japan’s prime minister hosted not just one, but two, dinners on Thursday night ...