For Takaichi, U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to capture the president of Venezuela and his fiery rhetoric toward ...

Then-Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi inspects an apple orchard in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, part of a JICA Partnership Program, Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan At the ...

Japan is preparing a series of immigration and entry policy changes that could significantly affect foreign residents, workers and visitors. As Japan’s foreign population rises faster than previously ...

Japan plans a major change in its foreign labour system as it tries to balance worker shortages with public concern over immigration. The government will cap the number of workers under a new ...

Kenneth Weinstein appears on the BBC to discuss Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s decision to call snap elections and analyzes how the move could affect Japan’s already tense relations with ...

On October 4, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan chose Sanae Takaichi — who is expected to reflect a more determined stand in defense of Taiwan — as its president, and the Diet is expected to ...

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Japan's plan to give authorities the power to order foreign investors to retroactively divest acquisitions is aimed at sheltering major firms and supply ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

Three Japanese megabanks are likely to increase their foreign bond purchases and scale back on local government bonds, aiming to take advantage of the contrary interest rate cycles in both economies.

Among the many issues that helped propel Sanae Takaichi to power as Japan’s first female prime minister this fall, perhaps none is more politically charged or more important to Japan’s long-term ...

A senior Japanese national security official confirmed with a French foreign policy adviser that both nations would cooperate toward realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific, ahead of Emmanuel Macron ’s ...