Taniguchi warns of China's growing power, urging leaders to stay optimistic. New Delhi: Tomohiko Taniguchi, former foreign policy advisor to the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shared his ...

North Korea said Friday it conducted a strategic cruise missile test earlier this week, which was overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, to demonstrate "the reliability of the state nuclear deterrence," ...

Here’s a look at the life of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Personal Birth date: September 21, 1954 Death date: July 8, 2022 Birth place: Nagato, Japan (some sources say Tokyo) Father: ...

The more than 10 Chinese men packed into a room in a former scam-operating center near Myawaddy on the border with Thailand may have been freed from forced work, but for now, there is nowhere else for ...

More than 80 homes appear to have burned down and some 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate after a wildfire broke out in a northeastern Japan city, local authorities said Thursday, as the ...

“Abe Shinzo: Kaikoroku,” is published. It was originally scheduled to be published a year ago, but the book reveals Abe requested the publication be postponed as it was too sensitive.

Longtime Fuji Media Holdings Inc. executive Hisashi Hieda stepped down Thursday from the company's management advisory panel as its broadcasting unit remains under fire for its handling of a sexual ...

Seven & i Holdings Co. said Thursday its founding family has withdrawn a proposed management buyout of the retailer due to a lack of interested investors, a decision that is likely advantageous to an ...

Japanese startup Dymon Co.'s ultra-compact Moon rover was launched Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as the Tokyo-based firm seeks to become the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting earlier this month that Japan is willing to buy U.S. military transport airplanes for the Self-Defense Forces, ...

The number of children born in Japan in 2024 fell from a year earlier to 720,988, marking the ninth consecutive year of record lows, health ministry data showed Thursday. The figure including ...