If Kishida is chosen prime minister again after the October 31 elections, he should immediately take away the Minister of Infrastructure, Land, and Transportation post from...
“Without a fresh breeze the LDP will lose its vitality,” Takaichi said, explaining her decision to run for president of the ruling party.
Suga took over as prime minister in the midst of the challenging COVID-19 pandemic. He navigated Japan through a foreign policy minefield, vaccine rollout and delayed...
One Japanese official warned that, given the removal of the range cap, from now on South Korea can have missiles with a range sufficient to cover...
Straight out of a health-related break, the Tokyo governor, with a 64% approval rating, did the rounds on the very last day of campaigning.
Forty-four Japanese researchers have taken part in China’s “Thousand Talents Plan,” while others receiving billions of Japanese yen have taken up key positions in Chinese military...
Most Japanese (and U.S.-Japan alliance supporters in the United States) think it is about time to demonstrate the presence of public officials on the islands as...
What are Japan’s most pressing challenges in the coming months and how will the Suga government respond to them?
In November 2012, Tibet’s present spiritual leader, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, presented a Tibetan shawl to Shinzo Abe, then Japan’s main opposition Liberal...
On July 18, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) confirmed that a Chinese naval survey vessel which had been operating without permission within Japan’s exclusive...
Just over a year ago, on June 30, 2019, Japan withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC). A day later, on July 1, the...
While the National Diet ended its ordinary session on June 17, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) and other opposition parties had requested to...