By Daniel Leussink TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japanese vehicle exports to the Middle East were nearly wiped out in April, government data showed on Thursday, as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran disrupted ...

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.

Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest overhaul of defense export rules in decades, scrapping restrictions on overseas arms sales and opening the way for exports of warships, missiles and other weapons ...

A three-meter (9.8-foot) tsunami warning was issued for Japan on Monday after a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency and the ...

Tokyo — As the U.S. gun control debate intensifies, some Americans are looking overseas for ideas on how to prevent mass shootings. Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world.

Recently two seemingly paradoxical headlines about the Japanese economy caught people’s attention. First, in 2023 Japan’s GDP was surpassed by that of Germany. Japan thus dropped to the world’s fourth ...

Aoki Masahiko, a prominent Japanese economist, once predicted it would take 30 years for his country’s economy to emerge from the “lost decades” that began in the early 1990s. At that time, an asset ...

The Japanese princess who renounced her royal title and wealth to marry her commoner husband has been spotted with a little heir — after fleeing NYC for the suburbs. Princess Mako Komuro, the first ...