The departure of pandas will leave legions of Japanese admirers bereft, but it is also symptomatic of a dramatic deterioration in China-Japan relations ...

IN one of the more staggering ironies of our time, the country that was atom-bombed by the United States in order to compel its unconditional surrender and end the Second World War was required by the ...

Chinese tourists avoided Japan in December after a diplomatic row between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan led to a sharp fall in travel, according to Japanese officials.The decline followed comments by ...

The panda house at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo is not due to open for several hours, but visitors are already milling around its ...

Return of twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei to mark first time Japan will be without any pandas since normalisation of diplomatic ...

Number of high-spending Chinese tourists visiting Japan halved last month after PM said an invasion of Taiwan could spark Japanese military involvement ...

Emma DeSouza asks if 2026 threatens a return to 19th-century imperialism — this time without rules or restraint.