The cause of such a crushing defeat was analyzed to have been greatly affected by the Liberal Democratic Party's slush fund scandal under former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ... Minister Ishiba also ...

With Biden's departure, only South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol will remain of the three leaders who agreed at a Camp David gathering in 2023 on closer cooperation in response to rising tensions in ...

Devising a concrete plan to strengthen its self-defense capabilities and recalibrating its policy on North Korea would be top ...

World must brace ‘for extreme chaos’. Plus: Beijing pivots towards military junta; Yoon now engulfed in political strife; Haggling intensifies to decide on Japan’s leader; Indonesia’s debate over ...

MANILA--Japan’s prime minister began a two-day visit ... Fumio Kishida on bolstering overall relations, primarily defense ties. China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the South China ...

Capitals around the world are dusting off the old briefing books from Trump’s first term, but this time could be a mix of the ...

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida is set to meet China's President Xi Jinping during the APEC summit, marking their first ...

Ishiba said he told Biden that he will strengthen Kishida’s defense and diplomatic policies while bolstering networks that include South Korea and ... announcing such a plan before even becoming ...

Koizumi’s second visit to North Korea in 2004 was the last summit between the two nations. Kishida, prime minister since 2021, also promised to wrest the nation out of decades-long deflation and ...

He said Japan faces growing threats from China’s accelerating military activity around Japanese coasts and from North Korea’s repeated ... predecessor Fumio Kishida, but his governing ...

Kim expressed condolences to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with ... On Jan. 5, North Korea fired more than 200 artillery rounds near a disputed maritime border with South Korea, prompting the ...