During his January meeting with Kishida, Biden brought up the case of Lt. Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy officer deployed to Japan who last year was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has given the official nod to significantly boost Japan’s defense budget to 2 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal 2027, according to the ministers of finance ...

WAKAYAMA—A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on attempted murder, election law violation and other charges in an attack on then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in 2023 at the site of a ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Jan. 23 pledged to tackle the alarming decline in the birthrate through measures that far exceed the scope of those taken by previous governments. In his policy ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Nov. 8 announced his intention to submit legislation to the current Diet session to ban religious organizations from making egregious demands for donations.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed ministers and experts at a meeting promoting gender equality to prepare a plan for having women in at least 30 percent of executive positions at companies ...

In December 2022, Kishida said a decision on when to start the defense spending tax hike would be made in 2023. But with just two months remaining in the year, that prospect is also becoming ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is calling for a tax hike of 1 trillion yen ($7.4 billion) by fiscal 2027 to pay for Japan’s massive defense buildup. Now comes the hard part for the government ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gifted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a wooden “hissho shamoji” rice scoop believed to bring victory and an origami-crane-shaped lamp representing peace ...