To counter the yen’s depreciation, the Kishida government must provide financial help to households and businesses, and request firms to raise wages.
Japan remains constantly exposed to the menace of North Korean missiles, and ominously the Kim regime recently "legalized" its use of nuclear weapons.
International investigators must next turn their attention to the growing evidence of massacres in Izyum, as well as in Bucha and in other areas in Ukraine.
Democracies around the world cannot ignore the destabilization of East Asia. They should be prepared to stand up to China and Russia when necessary.
Only top-level negotiations backed by pressure from the United States and other international communities will break the deadlock.
The Chinese government claims that the Senkaku Islands — very much part of Japanese territory in Okinawa — are attached to Taiwan.
Russian troops, joined by counterparts from China and India, held a drill, firing weapons into the Sea of Japan, off Hokkaido.
Shinzo Abe led the region into strategic diplomacy. It is shameful that opposition parties back home should attack the funeral plans to score political points.
The relationship between the Japanese imperial family and the Queen’s royal family has formed the pillar of the postwar friendship between Japan and the UK.
Japanese sports officials owe it to the athletes and the sports world to investigate the cases of corruption themselves, and not just leave it to prosecutors.
Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss takes office to daunting economic challenges at home and Japan’s hopes of increased engagement in the Pacific.
Maintained by the private sector, Anime Taizen’s accumulation of world-class Japanese treasures can help promote Japan’s anime industry for years to come.