The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could ...

An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start ...

China's top envoy to Japan has warned Tokyo against using better ties with Beijing as a hedge against uncertainty in its ties with Washington. On the sidelines of the annual "two sessions" in the ...

Tokyo hopes joint memorial will underline commitment to security alliance, but Hegseth expected to ask Japan to do more to ...

This involved fending off resistance within his own party and paying his respects to former Prime Minister Shinzo ... Japan taking a conciliatory approach toward Russia and ruptured a relationship ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy away from challenging authority.

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)--Japan's government has compiled ... the administration of then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reversed this policy. A basic energy policy adopted by the Abe government ...

Seiichiro Murakami talks to reporters on Oct. 12 after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party punished him for calling former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a “traitor.” (Koichi Ueda) ...

George Glass, Washington's nominee for ambassador to Japan, says the cost of deterring China has become 'significantly more ...

WASHINGTON--U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will visit him next week at the White House and he looks forward to the conversation. "They’re ...

Tetsuya Yamagami indicated he planned to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in an anonymous letter sent to a freelance writer who has also criticized the Unification Church, investigative ...

A year after a gunman ended his life, Shinzo Abe casts a long shadow over the nation’s political landscape. Abe served two stints as prime minister, making him the nation’s longest-serving leader.