Japan's Defense Minster Nobuo Kishi speaks at a plenary session during the 19th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore, Saturday, June 11. (AP) ...

The two secretaries are holding so-called “two plus two” diplomatic and security talks with their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi on ...

Japan's biggest business lobby said Tuesday it has tapped Nippon Life Insurance Co. Chairman Yoshinobu Tsutsui to head the group, filling the post for the first time with someone from the finance ...

The accession to a trans-Pacific free trade pact by Britain, which has overseas territories in the region, took effect Sunday, marking the first expansion of the framework since it came into force in ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is arranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Dec. 25, a Japanese government source close to the matter said Saturday, in what will be his first visit to ...

When Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi met with their U.S. counterparts in Tokyo in March, the two sides issued a joint statement that stressed the “importance ...

A Russia-linked hacking group e-mailed multiple executives of Japanese publisher Kadokawa Corp. that it had received $2.98 million in cryptocurrency from the firm after it was hit by a massive ...

The Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka has opened the world's first attraction area based on Nintendo Co.'s popular Donkey Kong game series, seeking to attract more overseas as well as ...

A man whose parents are Unification Church members has filed a petition with a Tokyo court to change his legal name, saying he has suffered an "unbearable pain" in living under it. The man in his 30s, ...

The government is nearing a decision on when it will hike both the corporate and income tax rates to help cover the cost of its plan to nearly double the nation's defense budget to 2 percent of gross ...

The retrial of a man who served a seven-year sentence for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in central Japan is expected to result in an acquittal as prosecutors will not present new ...

Japan's Prince Hisahito, the nephew of Emperor Naruhito and second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, will attend the University of Tsukuba from April, a source at the Imperial Household Agency said ...