Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a pivotal role should Beijing order the invasion of Taiwan.

As China refines its strategy on the Indian Ocean island, it is posing a significant challenge to Japan’s long-held influence in Sri Lanka.

Investors dumped technology stocks in premarket trading Monday, sending U.S. indexes sharply lower after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek demonstrated a chatbot that it says rivals the top versions from OpenAI and Google for a fraction of the cost.

Sharp market declines stem from global economic concerns. Learn why upcoming earnings reports and U.S. AI spending could drive recovery and tech stock growth.

China is suffering from deflation, devaluation, capital flight and the loss of foreign investment — all at the same time. Unprecedented, far worse than "Japanification."

The trip gave the impression that Japan’s relations with China were on the mend. Iwaya indicated that Japan would be open to hosting a Japan-China-South Korea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in early 2025,

China's relations are starting to improvewith Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House.

China may be a step closer to reopening its doors to Japanese seafood imports after Beijing signalled it was keen to strengthen trade in food and agricultural products. Meeting his Japanese counterpart Taku Eto in Beijing on Friday,

TOKYO -- The stocks of Japanese companies poised to benefit from the rush of Chinese tourists visiting during the Lunar New Year holiday have rallied in Tokyo, even as the rest of the Nikkei Stock Average remained lackluster.

China's Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, eight-day holiday kicked off on Tuesday. The government predicts people will make a record 9 billion trips around this season. The Spring Festival falls on Wednesday this year.

China has overtaken Japan to be noted as the world's largest shipowning nation by value. China holds the top spot thanks to its most valuable bulker and container fleets, valued at $68.4 billion and $63.5 billion, respectively.

Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management said on Monday it has closed two real-estate investments in Japan worth a combined $1.6 billion.