List of Japan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Korea Plays Nice at Trilateral Meeting With Japan and U.S.
Despite repeated attempts by reporters to bait him into dredging up lingering resentments against Japan, a senior South Korean diplomat bit his tongue, downplaying 70-year-old tensions at a trilateral meeting in Washington.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Strong Is the U.S.-Japan Relationship?
The friendship between Washington and Tokyo has come a long way in 70 years, but a rising China could throw a wrench in the works.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Japan Bets on Nuclear, and Coal, for Future Power
Four years after Fukushima, Tokyo is angling to get nuclear reactors back online. But dirty old coal will be doing the real heavy lifting.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Japan’s New ‘Helicopter Destroyer’ an ‘Aircraft Carrier’?
The war of words between China and Japan over a new boat tells us a lot about the shifting balance of power in the Pacific.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Where’s the Beef? Five of the World’s More Unusual Textbook Kerfuffles
Textbook troubles have erupted over some surprising questions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kennedy Threats Add to Tough Stretch for U.S. Diplomats in Asia
On Thursday, the State Department confirmed that U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy -- one of Washington’s best-known and highest-profile diplomats -- had received multiple death threats by phone last month.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Freeze Terrorists’ Assets. Promote Prosperity. Encourage Moderate Values.
Japan’s foreign minister on how his country will fight Islamist terrorism in the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Do We Mean When We Say ‘This Is Our 9/11’?
In this age of terrorism, each new attack is being greeted with declarations that this is "our 9/11."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Islamic State Kills Second Japanese Hostage
The fate of a captured Jordanian pilot remains unknown.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beheading of Japanese Citizen Leaves Tokyo With Agonizing Choice
The Islamic State murdered one of its two Japanese hostages. Now, the group is demanding the release of a prisoner for the life of the second.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Must China and Japan Do to Get Along in 2015?
It will take more than just an awkward handshake.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When Is a Blowout Not a Blowout?
Why the Japanese prime minister’s big election victory only affords him a short honeymoon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Reactionary Visionary
Can Shinzo Abe convince Japan’s voters that the path to future glory lies in the imperial past?
