During the Tokugawa era (A.D. 1603–1868), much of Japan was ruled by the country’s military governor, called the shogun, or his retainers. The rest was divided up into several hundred semiautonomous ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was set to be quizzed by opposition parties in parliament for the first time on Wednesday, as her administration’s colossal new economic stimulus package came ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi defended her 21.3 trillion yen (US$136.5 billion) stimulus package in parliament on Wednesday, telling opposition politicians the debt-fuelled plan was ...

More than two weeks have passed since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made her erroneous remarks on the Taiwan question. Yet neither Takaichi nor Japanese diplomats have committed to retracting ...

The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has deeply divided nations and scientists. On February 21, 2021, a Tokyo Electric ...

[TOKYO]The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will discuss at upcoming policy meetings the feasibility and timing of a rate hike with a focus on next year’s wage-growth impulse, governor Kazuo Ueda said, signalling ...

China, Russia, and North Korea’s de facto alliance risks creating a "new world order” which could lead to Tokyo facing a three-front contingency in the future, a report released by a think tank of ...

Why did Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi trigger such shock with her recent remarks on Taiwan? Is China really "overreacting", as some Western critics say? Is Takaichi trying to please the US ...