Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday (August 29) consumed what he called a "safe and delicious" meal of fish from the Fukushima. Just days after the process of release of wastewater from the plant into the Pacific Ocean was started, the Japanese PM invited his ministers to his office for a sashimi lunch made up of seafood caught from the contentious Fukushima Prefecture.

Japan PM Kishida, ministers enjoy 'safe, delicious' Sashimi lunch to demonstrate Fukushima seafood safety

Japan has raised concerns over "extremely regrettable" harassment phone calls it has received since the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. began releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Japan condemns 'extremely regrettable' harassment calls from China amid Fukushima water discharge row

Tears flow as Japan sends Xiang Xiang the giant panda 'home' to China

Japan on Monday announced that over the past two weeks to keep tabs on China's Liaoning aircraft carrier and the nations warships that conducted naval manoeuvres and flight operations near Japanese territory, it scrambled jet fighters and made use of aircraft and warships.

Japan scrambled jet fighters to monitor Chinese aircraft carrier operations

On Sunday (November 6), Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during Japan's international fleet review, pledged to strengthen the country's naval and military capabilities while warning other countries to be ready to repel aggressors.

Japan's PM Fumio Kishida pledges to strengthen naval and military capabilities amid rising border tensions

As China and Japan celebrate 50 years of normalised diplomatic ties amid rising tensions, the relationship remains complicated and often contradictory. In 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed the treaty to terminate the state of war between them and establish diplomatic relations.

After 50 years of complicated ties, are Japan and China friends or foes?

China's President Xi Jinping expressed his condolences on Saturday over the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whom Xi said had worked hard to improve relations between the neighbours, Chinese state media reported.

China's Xi 'deeply regrets' death of Japan's Shinzo Abe

China and Japan have reached an agreement to establish a hotline for their disputes over Taiwan and the South China Sea. Japan's Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi held a two-hour video conference with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe and expressed his grave concerns over Chinese coast guard ships activities in waters surrounding the Japanese administered Senkaku Islands.

China, Japan to establish hotline for disputes over Taiwan and South China Sea

A day after Japan's deputy defence minister Yasuhide Nakayama said Taiwan should be protected as a "democratic country", China said the statement seriously violated the principles of China-Japan Joint Communique.

China is furious after Japanese minister calls Taiwan a 'country'

China has released a landscape survey of a group of islands administered by Japan to reinforce its territorial claims in the East China Sea region amid tensions with Tokyo.

As tensions rise with Japan, China reasserts Diaoyus claim with island survey

Amid reports of Chinese foreign minister seeking to meet Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, a Japanese academician has claimed that the government rejected an offer from China to reduce tensions in the disputed East China Sea.

Japanese academic claims Abe government snubbed President Xi's East China Sea peace offer

China and Japan on Friday pledged to forge closer ties as both countries stood together at a "historic turning point", signing a broad range of agreements including a $30 billion currency swap pact, amid rising trade tensions with Washington.

China, Japan to forge closer ties at 'historic turning point'

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