Questioned by a reporter during an Oval Office press conference, Trump cites nationalism as potential reason for decline in ...

Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to concerns over a looming demographic crisis. They argue that Japan must work ...

Takashi Mochizuki wrote about Asian tech companies as well as casino and bitcoin development in Japan from The Wall Street Journal Tokyo bureau.

Yuka Hayashi was news editor in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau and a reporter covering trade and international economy. Previously, she wrote about financial regulation and elder ...

The founder of Keio University, Fukuzawa Yukichi, studied Dutch, and visited our country in 1862. He was a major advocate of cooperation between Japan and the West – even back then. And his particular ...

With UPSC Prelims 2025 around the corner, mastering regional and global groupings — and their key summits — is non-negotiable ...

When the LDP was working to field Watanabe, 34, questions were raised about her past social media posts critical of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July 2022.

adding that most Japanese sensed there had been a dearth of strong and decisive leaders since the late former prime minister Shinzo Abe stepped down in September 2020.

There is no doubt that the intent behind this "commemoration" and Hegseth's remarks is clear: to partially accommodate the ...

Japan's chief trade negotiator will leave for the United States Wednesday for talks aimed at convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to remove tariff measures against the East Asian country, officials ...

For his first face-to-face talks on tariffs, the president chose Japan, a U.S. ally that decades ago stirred his anger over ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that his country needs to bolster its security posture amid threats from North Korea and should consider acquiring preemptive strike capability after having ...