Simon Denyer

BEIJING — The Chinese government struggled Sunday to cope with a worsening coronavirus epidemic as its official number of infections soared and the death toll rose to 80, while additional cases appeared in the United States. The government in Beijing…

Mitsuhiko Maeda spent 40 years hunting whales off northern Japan, as a navigator and spotter. Today, at 73, he still spends his days with binoculars — on a lookout post on a vessel, scanning the Sea of Okhotsk for telltale spouts. But his boat has no…

TOKYO — A Japanese civil court awarded about $30,000 in damages to a journalist who alleged she was raped by a powerful television bureau chief, in a case that highlighted Japan's outdated rape laws and the obstacles women face in alleging sexual…

TOKYO — The owner of a Japanese tanker attacked in the Gulf of Oman offered a different account Friday of the nature of the attack than that provided by the United States. Yutaka Katada, president of the Kokuka Sangyo shipping company, said the…

The Trump administration on Friday intensified its effort to demonstrate Iran’s culpability in a spate of damaging oil tanker attacks, as dueling accusations from Washington and Tehran heightened concerns about military conflict. American officials…

TOKYO — A Japanese man carrying two knives waded into a crowd of schoolgirls at a bus stop outside Tokyo on Tuesday and began stabbing them one by one, killing an 11-year-old and an adult and wounding at least 17 others. The middle-aged man then…

HANOI – As he boarded his train for the long journey home on Saturday, Kim Jong Un grinned, waved and clasped his hands above his head like a boxer celebrating victory. North Korean state media has already proclaimed his summit meeting with President…

HANOI — When President Trump boasts of his wonderful relationship with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, or claims that there would have been war if he hadn’t been elected, many people cringe. But behind Trump’s boasting and bluster, a small…

TOKYO — The State Department on Wednesday announced a planned meeting with a top North Korean envoy had been scrubbed, even as President Trump said he hoped to hold a second summit with Kim Jong Un “early next year.” Trump’s remarks followed a…

This video is currently not available TOKYO — President Trump may have fallen “in love” with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un, but Pyongyang wants Washington to prove its affection — by lifting sanctions. As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…

BEIJING — News that a passenger was forcibly dragged off a United Airlines plane has gone viral all over the world, but in China the outrage has been fueled by one uncomfortable fact: The doctor who was pulled off the plane, first screaming and then…

BEIJING — China dismissed the awarding of a major human rights prize Tuesday to scholar Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uighur who was jailed for life in 2014 on charges of advocating separatism and supporting terrorism. Tohti, who taught at Beijing’s Minzu…

BEIJING — A Chinese lawyer who defended activists and others in politically sensitive cases was convicted of fraud and given 12 years in prison Thursday, his lawyers said. It is the harshest sentence to date in the relentless crackdown on China’s…

JIQIE NO. 2 VILLAGE, China — She was 27, a kind, hard-working woman who supported her family by herding yaks and harvesting caterpillar fungus, a prized health cure, on the high grasslands of Tibet. Last October, Tsering Tso was found hanged from a…

BEIJING — The coal mines of Anyuan in southeastern China hold a special place in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. It was there, nearly a century ago, that Mao Zedong and other intellectuals leading the brand-new party made their first…

BEIJING — The Obama administration said Tuesday that the president would veto legislation to rename a stretch of street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington after a jailed Chinese dissident, after the Chinese government warned of “serious…

In China, the event prompted some discussion among the diplomatic community. Who would be brave enough to put out a public statement calling out China on its increasingly grim human rights record? Would European or Western nations be prepared to…

BEIJING — China has mounted an extraordinary set of attacks against Communist Party members in the troubled western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, with accusations of disloyalty, secret participation in religious activity, sympathy with the Dalai…

BEIJING — More than 100 Chinese Muslims faced what a rights group called “grim” prospects Friday, a day after their deportation from Thailand, as officials in Beijing accused many of them of terrorist activities and warned of possible harsh…

BEIJING — China stands on the verge of passing a landmark new domestic violence law, a victory decades in the making that owes much to the extraordinary, and very different, stories of two battered women whose suffering helped prompt a national…