Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday she would meet her counterparts in the United States next week to discuss rare earths supplies, and repeated Tokyo's condemnation of China over its latest export controls.

They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history they’re still working through.

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:18 a.m. Japan time about 11 miles south of Matsue, Japan, data from the agency shows. U.S.G.S. data earlier reported that the magnitude was 5.8.

Japan's plan to give authorities the power to order foreign investors to retroactively divest acquisitions is aimed at sheltering major firms and supply chains, though it is unlikely to curtail increased M&A interest,

The epicenter of the first earthquake was in eastern Shimane prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Multiple earthquakes struck western Japan on Tuesday, local time, centered in Shimane Prefecture and neighboring Tottori Prefecture.

China is opening an anti-dumping investigation into Japan over a chemical used in the manufacturing of semiconductors, it announced on Wednesday.

Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this does not seem to have much deterred Japan’s leaders from their course. Three related trends have fuelled what anxious Japanese have come to call the “foreigner problem”.

Japan’s lack of public trash cans often surprises visitors, but cultural norms and safety concerns explain why travelers carry their trash all day.

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world’s largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map shows the locations of the country’s nuclear power plants.