He is frank about Japan’s wartime misdeeds, and will thus help to nurture the vital but tetchy relationship with South Korea.

In 1945, as Japan was occupied at the end of World War II, the ship was found afloat at Kure, Japan. Recommissioned once more ...

Only a formal regional military alliance can prevent war in the region, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said recently.

Japan's service sector activity expanded for the third straight month in September, but the pace slowed slightly and ...

A World War II bomb exploded from beneath an airport in Japan on Wednesday, canceling over 80 flights. The blast left a large ...

The explosion occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base built in 1943 ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba are in talks to hold a meeting on the ...

Masato Kanda unleashed an estimated 25 trillion yen to support the currency when it slumped against the dollar.

Japan's Parliament has elected Shigeru Ishiba, the new leader of the ruling liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as the country's ...

On 11 March 2011, communities along the north-eastern seaboard of Japan's biggest island, Honshu, were swept from their ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new prime minister appointed only two women to his 20-strong cabinet on Tuesday, down from five ...