Kishida welcomed the bloc's adoption of a new Indo-Pacific strategy in September, which mentions stepping up trade and investment with Taiwan.

Sapporo is considered a leading candidate to win the right to host the games, but local residents have expressed concern about a repeat of this year's Tokyo Games budget blowout.

Kuroda stressed the importance of the financial sector providing support to industries making efforts toward decarbonization, a goal he said is expected to take considerable time.

U.N. body warns that rising cases, regardless of a change in severity, may pose overwhelming demands on health care systems and lead to increased morbidity and mortality.

Natural gas companies believe that the global shift away from fossil fuels does not necessarily mean the infrastructure already in place needs to be scrapped.

As the country finishes its initial rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, Japan must simultaneously gear up to distribute a third dose.

The measures close the border to business travelers, foreign students and foreign interns starting Tuesday but it does not affect re-entry for Japanese nationals and foreign residents.

According to sources, investigators found over ¥200 million in cash when searching Hidetoshi Tanaka's home.

The new COVID-19 variant has dealt a blow to optimistic hopes of a global economic recovery, but what comes next will be dictated by scientific research.

The simulated incident was attended by JR East's Sendai branch and local police. An actual train car was used in the exercise conducted at Shiroishi-Zao station in Miyagi Prefecture.

The health ministry said Monday the number of severely ill COVID-19 patients nationwide totaled 43, unchanged from the previous day.

Experts claim that companies in rural areas must create a welcoming environment for sexual minorities in order to attract new hires.

Forty-five schools plan to send their students for school trips to the city in December, a period when few schools normally plan trips, the tourism bureau said.

More than three decades after scribbling his first poem as a teenager in the mountains of northern China, Chen Nianxi is living a literary dream.

In the cartoon there is a sign in the square that reads "On this site, in 1989, nothing happened," a satirical nod to China's campaign to purge memories of what occurred at the site.

A powerful earthquake that shook the capital in October has fueled fresh fears of an impending temblor that could devastate the world’s largest city.

The panel also called on the government to consider adopting a review system aimed at investigating the causes of children's deaths.

The suspension of dozens of social media accounts deemed to be critical of the government came shortly after the launch of a cybercrime volunteers program.

Taiwan and Europe must work together to defend against authoritarianism and disinformation, President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting lawmakers from the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Monday. Lithuania has faced sustained pressure from China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, since allowing ...

Health experts in South Africa, where the new variant was first detected, said it appeared to cause only mild symptoms, but others warned that more data is needed.

Nissan, on track to return to annual profit for the first time in three years, is seeking to use know-how it amassed as an early entrant into the EV market as a foundation for growth.

The National Institute of Infectious Diseases has named the new strain — previously "a variant of interest," the second-highest of its three-tiered alert level — as a "variant of concern."

During Trump's four years in office, the 19th-century Romanesque Revival-style hotel became a magnet for top donors, corporate lobbyists and foreign governments hoping to win influence.

Former Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, recently appointed human rights czar, had championed a new law on the issue but has recently softened his rhetoric.

Operators, passengers and businesses have scrambled to respond to a deluge of travel restrictions announced over the weekend.

The lack of turnover in the property market and the fallout on the city's real estate brokers stems in part from policy efforts by local authorities to make apartment prices more affordable.

Tomoko Yoshino is considering ways to provide practical training for women in presentation and persuasion skills to help them advance.

Any fix is unlikely to come from the supply side any time soon, with fuel exporters Russia piping only what it has to and Qatar saying it’s producing what it can.

The administration has previously said it will find it difficult to adopt a minimum support price for farm crops as it involves huge budgetary expenditure.

A “Frankenstein mix” of mutations raises concerns, but the variant may remain vulnerable to current vaccines. If not, revisions will be necessary.

The sector's "fragile" and "slow" recovery comes amid a surge in infections and as the omicron variant spreads across the globe, the U.N.'s tourism body said.

The causes behind the sudden and ugly new migrant tableau are blurred, but one theory is the Belarus government may be inviting immigrants in and then urging them to enter Poland and the EU.

How did the U.K. make it through the past 20 months of COVID-19? The private sector’s role in delivering publicly funded care needs to be acknowledged.

Snova Hashima has seen a significant drop in the number of skiers and snowboarders since it opened following in 1998 at the time of the Nagano Winter Olympics.

Under his leadership, the team won nine constructors' championships and seven drivers' titles, most recently with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in 1997.

A day after lifting the Emperor's Cup at Fukuoka Kokusai Center, the Mongolian-born grand champion said he wants to match his 2021 haul of four grand tournament titles next year.

Club great Maradona died on Nov. 25 last year, and to mark the anniversary, Napoli unveiled a statue inside the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium pre-match.

The news comes a day after the 25-year-old became the first Japanese man to win 20 ski jumping World Cup competitions.

The 29-year-old first baseman-outfielder will ink a one-year contract worth $4 million with the Pirates, who finished the 2021 season at the bottom of the National League Central division.

Kenichi Ogawa became the new International Boxing Federation junior lightweight champion on Saturday after beating second-ranked Azinga Fuzile of South Africa in a unanimous decision.

Yamamoto's Game 6 will be remembered as one of the most stirring performances in defeat in the Japan Series.

Two teams of Japanese paddlers advanced to the finals of the mixed and women's doubles events at the table tennis world championships in Houston on Sunday.