Princess Noriko (R), second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, speaks beside fiance Kunimaro Senge at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo May 27, 2014.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius urged Tokyo to draw lessons from France and Germany to resolve sensitive historical issues, Phoenix TV reported.
India asked the United States on Friday to withdraw a diplomat from its embassy in New Delhi in the latest retaliatory action over the arrest of an Indian consular official in New York on charges of visa fraud.
Wartime documents have revealed evidence of Japanese biological warfare crimes and atrocities committed by Japanese Unit 731 during World War II.
Japanese former prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa decided to run in the upcoming Tokyo governor election, local media reported Friday.
Approximately 3,000 illegal workers in Lao capital Vientiane will soon be repatriated to their home countries.
The giant inflatable Rubber Duck installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman floats on the Parramatta River, as part of the 2014 Sydney Festival, in Western Sydney, January 10, 2014.
An Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip-search caused a major rift in US-Indian ties will leave the United States on Thursday.
South Korea and China advanced their free trade deal negotiations further at the ninth round of such talks held in the China's northwestern city of Xi'an, the South Korean trade ministry said Friday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set out on his first tour of the new year on Thursday aiming to boost Tokyo's influence globally and help Japanese companies gain ground on their European and Chinese rivals in the lucrative Middle East and African markets.
Retired US basketball star Dennis Rodman visited a ski resort in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Thursday with Kim Jong-un as a statement was issued on the former player's behalf apologizing for comments he made about a US citizen jailed by Pyongyang.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea rejected a proposal on Thursday from the Republic of Korea for resuming reunions of families separated by the Korean War.
Following global condemnation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a controversial war- linked shrine last month, Japan is now dealing with the ongoing fallout from the move.