Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.

How should Japan tackle pressing domestic and international challenges? Avoiding explanations to the public will not earn ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to skip a convention of signatories to a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty to be ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivered his policy address at the ordinary Diet session today. In his speech, he said he wants to ensure the survival and sustainability of the country. Mr ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilise his minority government, said Friday he will seek to maintain regional security and prepare for tough negotiations with US President Don ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stressed on Friday the importance of close ties with the United States for regional ...

Comments from Abe Shinzo and his widow Abe Akie suggest that they saw cowardice lurking behind Trump’s bravado.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s first policy speech deeply reflected the difficulties the minority ruling coalition faces, as ...

There can be no objection to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s basic idea of restoring vitality to the depopulating regions of ...

In last autumn’s extraordinary session, following the ruling coalition’s drubbing in the Lower House and transition to a ...

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Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset A popular TV host ...