FUMIO KISHIDA

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is due to step down in April after the longest stint at the helm of the central bank in its 140-year history. Kuroda has spearheaded the most ambitious monetary stimulus program of modern times, with measures that have turned the bank into the largest owner of stocks and government bonds in Japan and made it the last major anchor of ultra-low interest rates in the world. The BOJ’s first change of guard in a decade could have wide-reaching ripple effects in

Japan’s prime minister is asking employers to pay workers more. He should make the market do that instead.

As Kishida spoke to the media, Kihara was captured in the background with his hands inside his pants pockets. Many in Japan believe that such an action portrays a dismissive attitude and is considered inappropriate in formal scenarios. When footage of Kishida’s interview emerged on Japanese media, viewers criticized Kihara as “shameful,” “disrespectful” and “arrogant.”

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida spoke in desperate terms about the country’s cratering birth rate in an address to his nation’s parliament on Monday.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II.

A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation.

Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, made the remark about Fumio Kishida after the U.S. and Japan warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Additional classified government documents from the Obama administration were found at President Joe Biden's Delaware home this week, the White House confirmed Saturday.

The White House says lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known.

Biden reiterated the “unwavering commitment of the United States to the defense of Japan.”

There's a growing recognition that Japan needs greater deterrence capabilities in the neighborhood where it sits.

The U.S. and Japan sealed an agreement to bolster their cooperation on space.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is looking to Canada to help his country wean itself off fossil fuels from places such as Russia

The nation’s significance as a geopolitical power has rarely been higher, but that’s little solace for its unloved prime minister.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with President Biden on Friday, as he seeks to rally domestic support for Japan's new national security strategy.

The top national security officials from the U.S. and Japan have unveiled plans to strengthen the alliance to help counter threats from North Korea and China.

The U.S. and Japan announced plans to provide advanced weapons like anti-ship missiles to Marine forces stationed on Okinawa in an effort to cow China and North Korea.

The leaders of Britain and Japan are signing a defense agreement that could see troops deployed to each others’ countries

The leaders of Britain and Japan are signing a defense agreement that could see troops deployed to each others’ countries.

The parents of a Navy lieutenant detained in Japan urged the White House to secure their son's release in his upcoming meeting with the Japanese prime minster.

The Marine Corps is creating a new regiment based in Okinawa and will be equipped with advanced capabilities, such as firing missiles at Chinese ships in the event of a Taiwan conflict.

Top national security officials from the United States and Japan are expected to agree to changes in the joint defense posture this week as the two nations confront rising threats from North Korea and increasing aggressiveness from China.

Top national security officials from the United States and Japan are expected to agree to changes in the joint defense posture this week as the two nations confront rising threats from North Korea and increasing aggressiveness from China. U.S. officials say Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet on Wednesday with their Japanese counterparts and plan to issue a joint statement that will adjust, but not increase, the American troop presence on the island of Okinawa. It also will add a formal mention of space in the longstanding mutual defense treaty the two countries have held, in a nod to the Pentagon's creation of the Space Force and Space Command.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida begins a weeklong trip to strengthen military ties with Europe and Britain and bring into focus the Japan-U.S. alliance at a summit in Washington.

Trying to arrest rural depopulation, Japan wants people to quit its greatest metropolis. How about creating new ones instead?

President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House later this month for economic and security consultations.

Moves by several countries to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak — and that the government may not inform the rest of the world quickly enough.

Companies have welcomed China’s decision to end quarantines for travelers from abroad as an important step to revive slumping business activity, while Japan announced restrictions on visitors from the country as infections surge.

Japan will require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there after Beijing largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday that Japan will tighten border controls for COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there. The announcement comes days after the World Health Organization said it was very concerned about rising reports of severe cases across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy. The quantitative antigen test that is already conducted on entrants suspected of having COVID-19 will be mandatory for all people arriving from mainland China.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed his fourth minister in two months to patch a scandal-tainted Cabinet that has raised questions over his judgment of staff credentials.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved record defense spending next year in preparation for the country deploying U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles as part of a more offensive security strategy.

Bombed-out and poverty-stricken after surrendering in World War II, Japan disbanded its military and renounced war, devoting its efforts instead to economic development under a pacifist constitution. More than seven decades later, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spooked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government into approving a 60% hike in defense spending over five years. Increased tension with China over Taiwan has only added to the sense of urgency.

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have also prompted Japan to take a tougher stance to defend itself and improve its capabilities.

Japan's strict self-defense-only postwar principle is being loosened.

The famously pacifist nation’s plans to double defense spending are both welcome and overdue. Now it needs to find a way to pay for them.

The famously pacifist nation’s plans to double defense spending are both welcome and overdue. Now it needs to find a way to pay for them.

Japan’s parliament has enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage.

Japan has announced it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the U.K. and Italy.

Returning visitors are discovering that it’s just too cheap. The country needs to find out how to extract more value from its hospitality sector.

Bombed-out and poverty-stricken after surrendering in World War II, Japan disbanded its military and renounced war, devoting its efforts instead to economic development under a pacifist constitution. More than seven decades later, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spooked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party into calling for a doubling of defense spending over five year. Increased tension with China over Taiwan has only added to the sense of urgency.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is due to step down in April after the longest stint at the helm of the central bank in its 140-year history. Kuroda has spearheaded the most ambitious monetary stimulus program of modern times, with measures that have turned the bank into the largest owner of stocks and government bonds in Japan and made it the last major anchor of ultra-low interest rates in the world. The BOJ’s first change of guard in a decade could have wide-reaching ripple effects in

Japan’s top government spokesperson said Monday that the number of babies born this year is below last year's record low.

Pacific Rim leaders are seeking common ground on the war in Ukraine and other dire threats to humankind in an annual meeting that began Friday in Bangkok.

With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders of the world’s biggest economies — war, famine, poverty, to name just a few — there’s been little public discussion of North Korea and its pursuit of nuclear-armed missiles.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has COVID-19 and is leaving the Group of 20 meetings in Bali, just days after hosting President Joe Biden and other world leaders for a summit in his country’s capital.

North Korea has fired dozens of missiles in recent weeks, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that triggered evacuation alerts in Japan.

The leaders of South Korea and Japan have agreed to keep up efforts to resolve their historical disputes as they’re pushing to bolster security cooperation with the United States to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats.

President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea are vowing a unified and coordinated response to North Korea's threatening nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has decided to delay his departure Friday to Southeast Asia to attend three upcoming summits, apparently to sack his justice minister over a remark he made about capital punishment that was criticized as inappropriate. Justice Minister Yasuhiro Hanashi was reportedly to submit his resignation Friday to Kishida, two days after he made a comment at a party meeting that his low-profile job makes lunchtime news only when he uses his “hanko” stamp to approve executions in the morning. The remark quickly sparked criticisms from the opposition and even within Kishida’s governing party and could further shake his government, which is already mired in a controversy over its decades-long ties with the Unification Church, a South Korea-based religious sect accused in Japan of problematic recruitment and brainwashing adherents into making huge donations.

A custom wristwatch from Cambodian leader Hun Sen at the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, a foot-long dagger at the G-20 meetings in Bali, and cricket ice cream and Thai noodles with worm sauce at the APEC talks in Bangkok.

The weak yen makes the wages of Japan’s long-suffering workers seem absurdly low.

World leaders have expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul, South Korea.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses offset gains in other parts of the market.

Wall Street closed sharply higher, capping another strong week with gains led by Apple and other companies that made even bigger profits during the summer than expected.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a hefty economic package including 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) in government spending to counter the blow from inflation, signaling that the greater concern of its policymakers is that the economy will stall, not overheat.

Japan’s economy minister resigned over his ties to the Unification Church in a widening controversy involving dozens of governing party lawmakers.

Japan and Australia have signed a new bilateral security agreement to reflect the deteriorating security outlook for their region driven by China’s increasing assertiveness.

South Korean officials confirmed that North Korea tested two short range missiles shortly after military drills between South Korea and the US wrapped up.

The launch came just two days after North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan for the first time in five years.

U.S. officials are touting bioethanol in Japan, which trails other nations on using the green fuel made from corn and other crops.

President Joe Biden spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss their next steps after North Korea conducted its longest ever test launch by firing nuclear-capable ballistic missile over Japan.

Shares of South Korean and Japanese defense firms rose sharply in Asia's session after the North launched a ballistic missile that flew over Japanese territory.

This is the first time that a North Korea missile has flown over Japan since 2017.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned Russia's annexation of parts of Ukraine while on a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Vice President Kamala Harris has said her trip to Asia is intended to shore up American alliances with Japan and South Korea.

The funeral for Japan's longest-serving modern political leader has deeply split public opinion.

For all the heated arguments ahead of the controversial state funeral of assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — both for and against — it was the images of Tuesday's ceremony that most clearly tell the story of a deeply divided nation still struggling to process the legacy of perhaps the most polarizing leader in its modern history.

Japan's former leader Shinzo Abe was honored at a rare and divisive state funeral Tuesday that deeply split public opinion and that drew angry protests.

Tuesday marks the final day of referendums staged by Kremlin-aligned officials in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson areas.

In meeting after meeting in Tokyo, Vice President Kamala Harris has emphasized the U.S. commitment to regional security.

Japan’s assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, has been honored by a rare and divisive state funeral that was full of militaristic pomp and surrounded by throngs of mourners as well as by widespread protests.

Vice President Kamala Harris's tour of Asia began with a visit to Japan to discuss Taiwan's security issues against China with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Tokyo to lead a U.S. delegation to the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has held a series of meetings with foreign dignitaries in what he has called “funeral diplomacy” on the day before he hosts a controversial state-sponsored funeral for former leader Shinzo Abe.

A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan.

The commemoration of Shinzo Abe has put a spotlight on the scandal ensnaring the ruling party over its links with the Unification Church.

The Japanese leader who normalized relations with China 50 years ago feared for his life when he flew to Beijing for the high-stakes negotiations at the peak of the Cold War.

Vice President Harris, who is scheduled to spend three nights in Tokyo, is visiting at a politically fraught moment.

Attending funerals on behalf of the United States is normally a straightforward assignment for a vice president.

World Bank President David Malpass says he won’t resign after coming under criticism for his remarks earlier this week regarding climate change.

Japan’s prime minister has announced that his nation's strict border restrictions will be loosened next month.

The governments of South Korea and Japan say their leaders have agreed to accelerate efforts to mend ties frayed over Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

The man sustained burns on large parts of his body but was conscious after he set himself on fire in apparent protest of the former leader's funeral.

Tokyo police refused to comment, including on a report that a police officer was caught in the fire.

Britain’s government says it will cap wholesale energy bills for businesses this winter to ensure companies don’t go bust amid soaring energy prices.

A man has set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister’s office in Tokyo in apparent protest of the state funeral for former leader Shinzo Abe.

Nanmadol is one of the worst typhoons to strike Japan, with flooding and landslides expected.

With the yen near the cheapest level in decades, Japan is set to reopen its borders — but it should think about what type of tourist nation it wants to be.

Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela offered condolences to the United Kingdom on Friday following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch.

Japan’s governing party says an internal survey has found that nearly half of its national lawmakers had ties to the Unification Church, in a widening controversy that emerged after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Traders ignored verbal warnings from two of Japan’s most senior officials, and for good reason. What else can Tokyo do?

Fumio Kishida’s approval ratings are tanking. The prime minister must be more proactive to ensure his political longevity.

The head of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency says advanced nuclear technology will be “critical” for both the United States and Japan as they step up cooperation to meet decarbonization goals

The head of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency says advanced nuclear technology will be “critical” for both the United States and Japan as they step up cooperation to meet decarbonization goals.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification Church following a widening scandal triggered by former leader Shinzo Abe’s assassination last month.

The government is backing the construction of new reactors for the first time since Fukushima. It will have to convince a skeptical public first.

Japan is targeting carbon neutrality by the year 2050.

Japan currently requires negative PCR test results within 72 hours of departure for all entrants.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to ease border controls by eliminating requirements for pre-departure COVID-19 tests for travelers who have received at least three vaccine doses from early September, and he will also consider increasing daily entry caps as soon as next month