BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways.

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

Japan views the exclusive economic zone as "indispensable" to the country, allowing it to "exclusively develop" mineral resources.

As Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed Wednesday an Indian Ocean-Africa "economic zone" at the ongoing 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), multiple Japanese media outlets hyped up "China's clout.

Missiles, which can reach China's coastline and almost all of North Korea, will be deployed in southwestern Kumamoto province - Anadolu Ajansı

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By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese steel lobby groups said on Monday they have requested the early introduction of measures to prevent the evasion of anti-dumping tariffs aimed at protecting domestic industries from unfair imports.

Japan is using a large coast guard drone, the SeaGuardian, to monitor the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea amid repeated incursi

TICAD is a Japan-hosted international aid conference that dates back to 1993 and was last held in Tunisia in 2022. China has also been holding a forum on African cooperation since 2000 and has been increasing involvement in the resource-rich continent, including through its Belt and Road infrastructure projects.

The Korea Sports Council will send 230 athletes in 11 sports at the 33rd Korea-China-Japan Junior General Games. A total of 900 executives and athletes will participate in the competition, which will be held in Baotou City,