On the LDP side, Koichi Hagiuda, a former economy minister who was then a special assistant to Abe, and Nobuo Kishi, a former defense minister who is Abe’s brother, attended. These are the first ...

Japan's Defense Minster Nobuo Kishi speaks at a plenary session during the 19th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore, Saturday, June 11. (AP) ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi told a news conference that the government will stop using the popular term “omoiyari yosan” (sympathy budget) in referring to the host-nation support program ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, Abe’s younger brother, said doctors were doing everything they could to save Abe, including giving him blood transfusions, after he was rushed to a hospital in a ...

Then-Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi went on Aug. 13, 2021. In 2002, Gen Nakatani, as director-general of what was then the Defense Agency, visited Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. Kihara was not the ...

and Nobuo Kishi, Abe’s brother and a former defense minister. Neither Hagiuda nor Kishi has explained themselves adequately, despite their obviously close ties to the church. We now demand that ...

The two secretaries are holding so-called “two plus two” diplomatic and security talks with their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi on ...

When Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi met with their U.S. counterparts in Tokyo in March, the two sides issued a joint statement that stressed the “importance ...

Blinken and Austin will meet Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi in what is known as the 2+2 talks. Blinken will also meet business leaders and Japanese ...

The Japanese economy is expected to continue to grow at a moderate pace in 2025 supported by solid consumer spending on the back of wage hikes and the government's policies aimed at easing inflation ...

Penguins at Asahiyama Zoo in northern Japan's Hokkaido waddled through the snow during a "rehearsal" on Dec. 11, ahead of the start of their daily winter strolls running through mid-March. During the ...

The accession to a trans-Pacific free trade pact by Britain, which has overseas territories in the region, took effect Sunday, marking the first expansion of the framework since it came into force in ...