Foreign ministers from Japan, the United States, Australia, and India met in Tokyo on October 6, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held talks with the foreign...
A system failure on October 1 brought a halt to all equities trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the day. The rare circumstance...
Chinese ground crew members inspect a J-20 stealth fighter in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. China's defense budget rose 8 percent to 1.1 trillion yuan ($173...
United States President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, it emerged on October 2. He will stay in isolation at the Walter Reed Medical...
The United Nations marks its 75th anniversary this autumn as the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) gets underway. Founded on October 24, 1945, immediately after the...
Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, who died on July 30, was known as the “Father of Democracy in Taiwan” and an avowed friend of Japan. Hundreds...
The administration of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has announced plans to quickly set up a “digital agency” aimed at digitizing government services. The plans tie...
Vision for the Future of Japan’s Economic Society Newly elected Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Cabinet need to adopt economic policies that will...
The word “motivation” has been ingrained in society by the sports industry. It is often simply used as a word to express “enthusiasm,” but the...
It has been 10 years since a Chinese fishing vessel collided with multiple Japanese Coast Guard (JCG) vessels in Japanese territorial waters in the area...
Continuing from the previous season, Pacific saury (sanma) catches in Japan have reached a record low in 2020. Saury prices have been soaring, as...
Late July reportedly marked the peak of the “second wave” of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Japan. Compared to the earlier state of emergency period,...