Hosoda complains about media covering Taiwan&#39;s Lee
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TOKYO - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda on Tuesday complained about the media covering former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui&#39;s visit to Japan in defiance of the government&#39;s request that they play the visit down.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has  told executives of his ruling coalition he intends to resign,  Japanese media reported on Wednesday.
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A former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review yesterday launched a scathing attack on the magazine&#39;s US parent company Dow Jones for closing down the Asian news weekly.
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Australian journalist Ben Hills has accused a Japanese publisher of succumbing to government pressure by dropping a translation of his controversial biography on Crown Princess Masako.
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Japan said Friday it will complain to Australia after the government released graphic pictures of bloody whaling operations, accusing Canberra of stirring up emotions.
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A spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Friday criticized Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian, for his recent suggestion that the word &quot;Taiwan&quot; is the best option for the short form of the &quot;Republic of China.
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Drawing Beijing&#39;s ire, the government made clear Thursday it intends to issue a tourist visa for former Taiwanese President Lee Tenghui.
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EMPEROR Akihito has joined the controversy surrounding his daughter-in-law Masako&#39;s depressive illness by describing criticism of the Japanese imperial family as painful and untrue.
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Japan plans to allow former Taiwan  President Lee Teng-hui to visit for a sightseeing tour, the  government said on Thursday, prompting an angry protest from  China at a time of already frosty ties.
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Responding to criticism of Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen&#39;s ( é³åå±± ) blunt assessments of Singapore during his meeting with pro-independence activists on Monday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokesman Michel Lu ( åæ¶é¾ ) yesterday
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HONG KONG : Chinese President Hu Jintao&#39;s sharp rebuke of Hong Kong&#39;s leaders garnered widespread press coverage in the territory, with newspapers saying the criticism reflects Beijing deep concern over the enclave.
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Japanese newspapers Thursday voiced concern about an indecisive Super Tuesday in the United States, saying Tokyo hoped for clarity on how to stave off a US recession and end the Iraq conflict.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, despised by Beijing for asserting the self-ruled island's sovereignty, paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday, prompting a terse complaint from China.
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Yoshihide Fujii, president and chief executive officer of Tokyoba Digital Media Network Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 29, 2004.
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Taiwan&#39;s former president Lee Teng-hui on Saturday fired a defiant shot at China during a visit to Japan, urging Tokyo to take a harder line in an emotive row over a war shrine.
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Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun accused  arch-foe China of sending surveillance ships into Taiwan and  Japanese waters to prepare for a possible confrontation with  the United States, newspapers said on Monday.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen (é³åå±±) yesterday apologized for the words used to condemn a comment by his Singaporean counterpart who warned against Taiwan independence at a United Nations meeting last week.