29 Jan 2013

Uichiro Niwa, Tokyo's former ambassador to Beijing, has criticised the Japanese government for rushing into the purchase of the disputed Diaoyu Islands and appealed to both China and Japan to...

4:22AM
29 Nov 2012

Japan's outgoing ambassador to China, Uichiro Niwa, helped improve economic ties between the two countries but his lack of political skills in handling the territorial dispute in the East China...

5:36AM
5 Oct 2012

Japan will keep its current ambassador to China in Beijing for another month as rising bilateral tensions over territorial disputes in the East China Sea have made it harder for Tokyo to appoint a...

3:13AM
11 Sep 2012

Japanese ambassador Uichiro Niwa was summoned for a meeting in Beijing yesterday.

8:08AM
30 Aug 2012

A man suspected of ripping a Japanese flag from a car carrying Japanese ambassador Uichiro Niwa was arrested by Beijing police yesterday, as both countries sought to ease tensions over the...

8:11AM
28 Aug 2012

After months of speculation online, the Communist Party has acknowledged that one of its city-level party secretaries from northern China, rumoured to have fled the country with more than 200...

3:05PM

Reports that Uichiro Niwa, Tokyo's ambassador to Beijing, is being replaced have been welcomed among the growing number of Japanese calling on the government to be firmer with neighbouring nations...

4:48AM

Japan will today recall its ambassador to China, Uichiro Niwa, temporarily to discuss how to respond to recent developments concerning the disputed Diaoyu Islands, Japan's foreign minister,...

9:21PM

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