The Japanese and Chinese governments have concluded final negotiations, with China agreeing to lift its Japanese seafood embargo under a new monitoring framework. Beijing had imposed this embargo following the…
At age 43, former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is the youngest of the nine candidates and one of the three front-runners in the Liberal Democratic Party's Sept. 27 presidential election.His…
BEIJING (AP) — A 10-year-old Japanese student who was stabbed near his school in southern China has died, officials in Tokyo said Thursday, asking Beijing to provide details of the…
Getty ImagesA man holds an Icom device in Beirut after he removed the battery. The devices that exploded in Lebanon on Wednesday appear to be Icom IC-V82 transceiversA Japanese handheld…
View of the headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo. Image: Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In the modern world, where investors and traders are focused on the…
The Yomiuri ShimbunThe candidates running for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election line up on stage at a speech event in Matsuyama on Wednesday, along with LDP member Gen Nakatani,…
Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, 67, is leading in the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's leadership race, followed by former CDP leader Yukio Edano, 60, a Jiji Press…
Japan's long campaign to appoint more women to senior roles in business and industry has suffered a blow after a survey found that just 13 chief executive officers at the…
The Japanese Cabinet Office said in its monthly report published on Wednesday, the government maintained its economic assessment after the previous month's upgrade. Additional takeaways The Japanese government sees the…
Komeito, the coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is set to have a new leader for the first time in 15 years, with its current secretary-general, Keiichi Ishii,…