Takaichi was silent on when she would call an election during an interview with NHK recorded on Thursday and aired on Sunday.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi appears to have moved to a “new stage” in considering whether to call a snap election ...

Japan's plan to give authorities the power to order foreign investors to retroactively divest acquisitions is aimed at ...

J APAN is consumed by talk of a “foreigner problem”. The story goes that the country has been overrun by ill-mannered migrant ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a snap parliamentary election in the first half of February, ...

They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history ...

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will visit Japan for a two-day, one-night trip starting Jan. 13, the presidential office ...

Foreign visitors have made up 10 per cent of clothing retailer Uniqlo’s sales in Japan for the first time, highlighting the ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world’s largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

Beijing is punishing Tokyo for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, again wielding critical minerals as an ...

Tokyo is concerned at signs that Beijing may be laying the groundwork to restrict access to the metals vital to manufacturing ...