Japan’s Feb. 8 election is increasingly seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has tied her political ...

The unconventional leader — for starters, she’s a woman — has called an early election for Feb. 8 in an effort to win a broad public mandate for change.

SEOUL, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The defence ministers of South Korea and Japan agreed on Friday to upgrade defence cooperation and ...

The total was up 11.7% from a year earlier and comes amid an acute labor shortage in the rapidly aging country.

China's coast guard patrolled Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea almost daily last year, it said on Friday, ...

The chances of getting a replacement are poor, with Tokyo's relations with Beijing at their lowest point in years amid ...

The move by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is an attempt to capitalize on her popularity to help her governing party regain ...

Japanese government bonds and the yen have sold off in recent weeks on concern over Takaichi's expansionary fiscal policy ...

The debate over nuclear-powered submarines is likely to serve as a critical indicator of Japan’s strategic trajectory.

Hundreds at zoo in Tokyo say farewell to Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao, as China ends ‘panda diplomacy’ with Japan ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election ...