The government will compile a record 115.5 trillion yen ($734 billion) initial budget for fiscal 2025 as defense and social security spending continue to rise while debt-servicing costs also weigh on ...

A Japanese sake brewery will attempt to make the world's first outer space sake, creating just one bottle and donating the 100 million yen ($640,000) proceeds from its sale to domestic space ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan's biggest business lobby said Tuesday it has tapped Nippon Life Insurance Co. Chairman Yoshinobu Tsutsui to head the group, filling the post for the first time with someone from the finance ...

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 ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is arranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Dec. 25, a Japanese government source close to the matter said Saturday, in what will be his first visit to ...

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 ...

A Russia-linked hacking group e-mailed multiple executives of Japanese publisher Kadokawa Corp. that it had received $2.98 million in cryptocurrency from the firm after it was hit by a massive ...

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 Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka has opened the world's first attraction area based on Nintendo Co.'s popular Donkey Kong game series, seeking to attract more overseas as well as ...