Washington has agreed to move thousands of US marines off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa despite lack of progress on a controversial base relocation

Once again Europe is trailing the United States, Japan and South Korea when it comes to boosting innovation and meeting EU targets of devoting 3% of GDP to research and development. More »

The deals with the European Union and Japan to drop a contentious practice in US anti-dumping calculations known as ‘zeroing’ will prevent retaliation against American products

Japan has told the US it hopes to further reduce its reliance on Iranian oil imports at an early date

The scientist, author and broadcaster Prof Jim Al-Khalili says "we have to change our views on nuclear power" as he addressed concerns after the Fukushima plant leak in Japan.

Japan's earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster are out of sight, out of mind but the country is by no means out of the woods! Video review of the event! If you asked the average man or woman on the street in the United States about the current status of the Fukushima nuclear reactors or the condition of the people of Japan relative to the nuclear, earhtquake and tsunami disasters,...

Tokyo to snub Eurofighter on fighter jet contract, continuing a longstanding practice of relying on the US for imports of advanced weapons platforms

So, seventy years ago today, Japan launched an amphibious assault on what was then British Malaya. As Richard Evans pointed out on twitter, if you’re looking for something that signalled the game was up for the British Empire, the success...

ESSAY: Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry.

It really is amazing what people won’t see in Japan’s stagnation of the last 10-20 years. Throughout the past 20 years, the government has gone in for fiscal stimulus – as evidenced by its annual big-budget deficits – so that the infrastructure has been constantly renewed. In Britain, the coalition plans to slash spending on