South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held their first bilateral summit Tuesday, on ...

according to an adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “If we go on like this, the country will disappear,” Masako Mori said in an interview in Tokyo after Japan announced on Feb. 28 the ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori criticized the government’s ... expressed doubt about the degree to which Japan is throwing its weight behind Ukraine, adding Russia could not lose ...

Japan's Parliement on Tuesday elected Shigeru Ishiba as prime minister, replacing Fumio Kishida who stepped down earlier this year. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI 31,039 people played the daily Crossword ...

TOKYO — Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party will select the country’s new prime minister on Friday, choosing a successor to Fumio Kishida, who reshaped Japan’s role in the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin described Abe as an "outstanding statesman," and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott described him simply as Japan's "most significant post-war leader." ...

Japan’s outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media as he arrives at the prime minister’s office for a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020. Japan’s NHK TV says on Friday ...

Japan sent Yoriko Kawaguchi, a former foreign minister who was a special adviser to the prime minister at the time. Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori attended the inauguration of Pope Francis in ...

Mori was also re-elected prime minister by the House of Councilors. Mori's re-election was supported by the three ruling parties--the LDP, New Komeito and the New Conservative Party-- which ...