A former prime minister called her timing “crazy,” saying that during his tenure, they started at 6 or 7 a.m., not in the dead of night.

While Japan’s bank of English loan words has grown to the point where “context” and even “paradigm” can be understood by most people, there seems to be only a handful of Japanese words that have been sprinkled into the modern English vocabulary.

Sanae Takaichi promised to work for Japan and she’s being true to her words. Ahead of her first parliamentary budget session, the prime minister convened a meeting in the wee hours of the morning. But

Both countries have summoned each other’s ambassadors after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could draw a military response from Tokyo.

The prime minister’s remarks illustrate the gradual evolution of Japan’s relationship with Taiwan and its growing concern over China.

Just days after the conclusion of the 2025 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi triggered controversy with her

Reporting from Tokyo — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver a speech Saturday on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to U.S. forces in World War II. The text will be closely scrutinized by Japan’s neighbors, who have criticized Abe ...

In that most dingy of Japanese official buildings called the Gaimusho, a flimsy affair of wood and beaverboard, whose shabbiness is accentuated by the grandiose Navy Office across the way, Japan’s new Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, introduced himself ...