Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will be the first U.S. ally to visit the White House since President Trump asked for help in sending ships to patrol the Strait of Hormuz.

Are young Japanese voting based on an “idol effect” – or are they redefining entirely what it means to be liberal vs conservative?

The latest round of tariff threats issued by Donald Trump once again illustrates how central protectionist trade policies have become to his economic and political strategy.

Every G7 nation's fertility rate dropped below replacement levels in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the pension bill is coming due, and organizations are not ready.

The era in which the LDP was Japan’s dominant party in power was widely thought to be a thing of the past – until Takaichi.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visits the White House on Thursday (March 19) for meetings that offer US President ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has left for the United States for what she expects to be a “very difficult” meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Underground car parks and subways are being repurposed as Tokyo warns of the most severe security threat since the second world war.

Meanwhile in Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi insists that China, not the United States, is the most disruptive threat that countries face. Takaichi’s landslide victory in a snap election in ...

Discover key historic events on March 11, including Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Roman and Byzantine milestones, and ...

Singapore and Japan deepen cooperation in AI, green transition, and more, upgrading ties to a strategic partnership on their 60th anniversary. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.

Team Mirai, a political party founded by software engineers, won 11 seats in Japan’s legislature by promising chatbots, self-driving buses and high-tech jobs. Team Mirai, a political party founded by ...