UNSTOPPABLE is how Japan’s so-called remilitarization is described by a growing sector of geopolitical analysts. Beijing and some Southeast Asian nations regard Japan’s record defense budgets (2 ...

Inside Unit 731 is a gripping two-part investigation into one of Japan’s most secretive wartime programmes – a biological warfare unit that conducted lethal human experiments. At the centre of this ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry amid worries over Chinese and North ...