Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa has commented on the death sentence in China handed down to a man charged in connection with a knife attack on a bus carrying Japanese schoolchildren.

A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death.

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for a knife attack near Shanghai which left a Chinese bus attendant dead and a Japanese mother and child injured. The attack in June highlighted tensions between China and Japan amid fears of rising anti-Japanese sentiment.

In the week before President Donald Trump’s inauguration into the White House for his second term as president of the United States, China seemed to cozy up to U.S. allies.

Members of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army visited their Japanese counterparts and senior defense officials, said Japan’s top government spokesman, Yoshimasa Hayashi ... exchanges between China and Japan,” said ...

China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 billion. Elsewhere in Asia, Japan's population has been falling for 15 years, while South Korea's growth turned negative in 2021. In Italy, the number of births has fallen below 400,000 for the first time since the 19th century.

Senior representatives of the world’s second and third largest economies are attending Monday’s presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, reflecting the importance China and Japan place on good relations with the world’s biggest economy.

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China said Friday that its population fell ... The Japanese government’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, called the demographic situation critical last year, saying that the ...

Analysts say Beijing is trying to test Washington’s alliance with Japan and the EU ahead of Trump’s return to the White House