The United States sanctioned the president of the International Criminal Court, a court in the Netherlands that prosecutes war crimes.
The United States placed sanctions on Tomoko Akane, a Japanese citizen who heads the International Criminal Court, as part of a wider US campaign against the court.
A Russian military intelligence officer spent 17 months working undetected out of a Tokyo office disguised as an airline employee, buying parts that Ukrainian officials say are now found in about 90% of Russia's missiles and drones.
Reuters reports, based on unnamed sources, that Japan is preparing to announce it acted jointly with the United States to support the yen, its currency, which has been weakening.
An earthquake hit Kyushu, an island in southern Japan, on Tuesday.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan and triggered a tsunami alert, a warning that dangerous sea waves may follow.
In one week, four governments took steps to make their military threats harder to ignore.
A strait America cannot keep open, a navy built to close another, a nuclear taboo cracking in Tokyo, factories rising in Romania and Ukraine — read together, the week tells a single story about who pays for security and who collects.
As Typhoon Bavi forced thousands into shelters across Taiwan and Japan's southern islands, Taipei detected a Chinese naval vessel and official ship near its territory — coinciding with a new Chinese law that criminalizes pro-Taiwan speech among ethnic minorities.