Opposition calls for Diet extension over cherry blossom party scandal
Opposition parties are accusing the government of lying about the existence of backup data for a guest list for a contentious cherry blossom viewing party this year.
Abe says meeting with South Korea's Moon being arranged for later this month in China
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he is arranging a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in when he visits China for a trilateral summit in late December. Abe also unveiled plans to visit India from Dec. 15 to 17 for a summit with Prime ...
Japan's next SDF mission to Mideast may include its biggest warships
The next Self-Defense Forces dispatch to the Middle East could get Cabinet approval by the end of the year.
Abe denies same-day shredding of blossom party guest list is linked to opposition disclosure request
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells the Upper House that the shredding of the guest list was previously planned and had nothing to do with the disclosure request filed by an opposition lawmaker.
Top Japanese and South Korean diplomats likely to discuss wartime labor issue at Madrid meet
Top South Korean and Japanese diplomats will likely meet on the sidelines of a gathering of Asian and European foreign ministers later this month to discuss a resolution to a yearlong dispute, Yonhap news agency reported. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu ...
Aligning interests deepen Japanese-Aussie defense ties
Australian Defense Minister Linda Reynolds made her first official visit to Tokyo in November, holding talks with her counterpart, Taro Kono, reiterating their commitment to the security relationship between the two countries, and consolidated a series of new measures designed to deepen their defense ...
Trump sends condolences over death of ex-Japanese leader Yasuhiro Nakasone
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday offered "deepest condolences" over the death earlier in the week of former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, saying he had laid the foundation for the U.S.-Japan partnership. "On behalf of the American people, Melania and I offer our deepest condolences ...
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sends condolences over death of Yasuhiro Nakasone
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev offered his condolences Friday on the death of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, saying the latter had been determined to improve Japan-Soviet relations. Gorbachev, 88, said he became acquainted with Nakasone in 1985 and their friendship continued after the two leaders ...
Ex-PM Yasuhiro Nakasone nurtured ties with Beijing and Seoul but created a stink over Yasukuni
Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a conservative politician who died Friday at the age of 101, is recognized in China as the leader who helped usher in a so-called honeymoon-like period in bilateral relations with Japan in the 1980s. In 1985, however, he made an ...
Japan skirts question about possibility of SDF dispatch to Russian-held islands off Hokkaido
The government has skirted a question about the possibility of sending Self-Defense Forces troops to four Russian-held isles off Hokkaido that are at the center of the two countries' territorial dispute. In a document adopted at a Cabinet meeting Friday, the government said it is ...
Abe dinner with Komeito leader stokes speculation about snap election
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party's coalition partner Komeito, had a dinner meeting Thursday, stoking speculation that they may have discussed the possibility of a snap election for the House of Representatives. At a Komeito meeting Friday, Yamaguchi ...
Diet deliberations slow as opposition hounds government over cherry blossom-viewing scandal
The opposition camp’s boycotts over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s handling of the campaign violation affair is putting the ruling bloc under pressure as the extra Diet session comes to a close.
