Sanae Takaichi makes comments during a visit to Australia, where she signs agreements on energy supplies.

Japan and Australia have emerged as the regional leaders in responding to economic security challenges emitting from China and the wider world. The joint declaration commits Australia and Japan to consult on economic security contingencies and consider measures in response – alluding to the potential for joint action to counter economic coercion.

Australia and Japan have signed a raft of new agreements after talks between the leaders in Canberra shaped by wars raging across the globe.

Japan’s prime minister has inaugurated a panel tasked with reviewing her country’s security and defense policies as tensions with China, North Korea and Russia escalate in the region.

North Korea on Monday denounced Japan’s move to revise its three key national security documents aimed at strengthening defense capabilities and increasing defe

The yen stabilized at the start of trading in Asia on Monday, following suspected intervention by authorities to strengthen the currency last week.

Japan Airlines has announced (1) a partnership with a Japanese robotics company which it hopes will result in humanoid robots handling luggage and cargo. The carrier will launch a trial in May, but added it doesn't plan to have the machines putting their robo-hands on actual customer bags immediately.

Is this the ultimate location for contemplative art? Our writer travels to the legendary island of Naoshima – and meets the great creator of its most spellbinding works. Will he step through the arch and find nirvana?

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck western Japan on Saturday evening, shaking homes and offices across three prefectures and jolting an estimated 36 million people in one of the country’s most densely populated corridors.