China is known as the country that invented paper and, fittingly, it has a rich history of books. Japan has had a relationship with China since at least the seventh century, when it started ...

China and both South and North Korea have strongly protest. Japan will not reverse its approval of a history textbook, ... Japan approves contentious history book. Published 24 years ago.

He adds that Japan's relations with its neighbors have been difficult for many years, due to differing interpretations of history, but the growing military power of China and North Korea are now a ...

Contrast that with Japan At War: An Oral History, and one will see the difference between a book that is merely good to one that is great.In Japan At War, there is no one-sidedness (with exception ...

A book recounts how precious works of art thousands of years old were taken to safety as Japan began its invasion of China in the 1930s — a part of China's history largely unknown outside Asia.

Some countries have more history than others, in the sense of an unbroken record of significant events. While falling short of China’s three millennia of civilization, Japan has a long and rich ...

FEW countries have been subjected to more varied comment than Japan. Her unique art and art industries, her laborious task of national reorganization, her successful war with China and the impetus ...

Digital wallets, bike-sharing, online shopping… The highly developed digital industry in China has left a deep impression on 26-year-old Japanese man Hideo Natsume, who decided to write a book ...

A dispute over islands in the East China Sea has inflamed relations between Japan and China - but they were tense even before. Mariko Oi investigates why.