Japan

There is much that could be learned from the old Cold War playbook.

Shinzo Abe has skillfully handled the U.S.-Japan relationship.

Abe said Friday he would resign, citing the re-emergence of the same chronic health condition that forced him to step down as prime minister in 2007.

Abe is Japan's longest serving leader.

Japan's longest serving prime minister said Friday he would step down amid reports of his worsening health.

The incident at the disputed Paracel Islands comes a day after the U.S. Navy confirmed to Newsweek it surveilled People's Liberation Army exercises in defiance of Chinese warnings.

Communist China represents America's biggest 21st-century threat.

Japan should be more than a junior partner for the U.S.

"If the right of self-defense is exercised as 'offense is the best defense' it would recklessly lead us to a war," Nagasaki survivor Tanaka Terumi told Newsweek.

A closer Japan-Israel alliance could strengthen America's hand against the Chinese Communist Party.

It has been 75 years since any nation used a nuclear weapon during wartime.

Sunday marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, which came days before the end of World War Two.

The Senkaku islands are little more than a string of large rocks—but they could provoke history's next great conflict.

The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

Some thought A-bomb survivors "had the blood of the devil," according to one Hiroshima resident.

75 years ago, the world's first nuclear bomb was dropped. How did it change the nature of conflict, how do we now view the use of nuclear weapons and what will determine their use in the future?

The U.S. became the first, and to this day only, nation in the world to use a nuclear weapon against a foreign adversary on August 6, 1945.

U.S. atom bomb attack survivors Setsuko Thurlow of Hiroshima and Terumi Tanaka of Nagasaki, both 88, still fear nuclear war and worry President Donald Trump's approach to arms control only heightens this threat.

It has been 75 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities, killing thousands of people.

An amusement park miniature of Tokyo-3, the primary setting for "Neon Genesis Evangelion," not only reproduces sets from the landmark anime, but will let visitors apply for a miniaturized residency.

Only 2,500 fans will be allowed into Tokto's Ryogoku Kokugikan Hall, an indoor sports arena with a capacity of around 11,000, each day during the tournament.

The man reportedly traveled across the country for the video shoot, including in the Yamaguchi Prefecture.

The worm, which was 1.5 inches long, was removed with tweezers by doctors in Japan.

The island in the Pacific Ocean has been growing since 2013 following an eruption of an underwater volcano.

Researchers find their eyes are covered with "dermal denticles" that help protect these organs.

China practiced targeting islands near the contested waters of the South China Sea as India and Japan both drilled in the strategic Malacca Strait.

Japan's defense minister Taro Kono told reporters that the belligerence from Pyongyang was a diversionary tactic from the spread of the coroanvirus and the leader's health.

"If the U.S. insists on the deployment, it will be a provocation at China's doorstep. China will never sit idle and will take all necessary countermeasures," a Chinese military spokesperson warned.

Beijing and Taipei both claim a small, uninhabited stretch of East China Sea islands controlled by Japan.

The study involved over 9,000 people aged between 18 and 44.