Japan has reported that its exports to the world rose 3.7% in October from a year earlier, while imports edged up 0.6%.

China is trying to impose economic costs on Japan for wading into the issue of Taiwan. But experts say the escalating dispute could ultimately hurt China too.

Tension between Japan and China has escalated over the new Japanese leader's suggestion Tokyo could intervene militarily if Beijing attacks Taiwan.

The White House is preparing for a situation in Japan that could be "deadly for decades," a U.S. official tells ABC News. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. The nuclear crisis in Japan has intensified since the massive earthquake first damaged nuclear facilities.

With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Indonesian capital Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass Japan's Tokyo, according to a new United Nations report.

Japan is set to give the green light this week to restart the world's biggest nuclear plant, local media reported Wednesday.

When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump sat down in South Korea last month to discuss a pause in their trade war, Taiwan surprisingly didn’t come up. Now the biggest flashpoint between the US and China is firmly back on the agenda.

Prime minister says leaders discussed Indo-Pacific ‘challenges’ amid tensions over Taiwan between Tokyo and Beijing