Now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to work toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the focus will turn to Pyongyang's willingness to actually dismantle its nuclear weapons program under robust international verification. Verification, analysts say, is key in achieving the ...

In the run-up to a planned Kim-Trump meeting, Tokyo wins broader backing for its efforts to address past abductions of Japanese by Pyongyang.

One of the first actions U.S. President Donald Trump took after being sworn in on Jan. 20 last year was to "permanently withdraw" the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, then a 12-nation free trade agreement that he blasted as costing American jobs. During the ...

Canadian scholar Levi McLaughlin remembers the intensive Sunday rehearsals he had in the early 2000s with a men's orchestra run in Tokyo by the lay-Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. Because Soka Gakkai's charismatic leader Daisaku Ikeda is a Beethoven aficionado, the orchestra mainly played Beethoven symphonies. ...

The United States has welcomed Japan's planned introduction of a land-based variant of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system, but there are growing calls in Washington for Tokyo to acquire strike capability to further boost deterrence against North Korea's nuclear and missile threat. American experts ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely to push Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to accept Washington’s calls to begin negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement.

The leaders remained at odds over U.S. calls to start bilateral free trade talks but made progress on automobile and farm trade.

Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies agree to step up coordination in coping with risk factors to the world economy amid signs that 2017 will be the best year for global growth in a decade.

Group of Seven finance chiefs on Thursday pledged to apply "maximum economic pressure" on North Korea over the "grave" threat posed by its missile and nuclear weapons development, a senior Japanese official said. The G-7 finance ministers and central bank governors affirmed close coordination in ...