Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi strongly responds to criticisms, especially from Beijing, and defends the strategic shift ...

Cooperation with developing countries is key to dealing with climate change and other global challenges, Japanese Emperor Naruhito said Thursday ahead of a visit to Indonesia, his first official ...

An expert panel at Japan's education ministry is urging schools to bring in outside Japanese-language instructors to cope ...

The leaders of Japan and South Korea met on Saturday and pledged to enhance cooperation between the two countries, saying economic and security challenges require them to step up bilateral relations.

In 2025, Japan will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki amid the controversial release of treated Fukushima wastewater. Despite backlash from neighbouring countries, diplomatic ...

Japan’s banks are grappling with a problem that was unthinkable a few years ago. Loans are growing faster than deposits.

Shigeru Ishiba, top, sits ahead of the extraordinary session of parliament's lower house Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AFP) — Shigeru Ishiba, who became Japan’s ...

2023 marked a dramatic rapprochement between South Korea and Japan. Despite shared challenges of regional security and economic growth, relations between the two countries have been marred by disputes ...

Japan was once celebrated as an economic powerhouse, to the extent that in the 1970s, American magazines fueled fears — much as they do today with China — of a Japan poised for global dominance.