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Oil pump jacks outside Almetyevsk, Russia, in July.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2025

Japan expands sanctions against Russia

Tokyo will freeze the assets of 14 individuals and 51 organizations, including Russian officials, company executives and pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.
European Commission Executive Vice President Stephane Sejourne
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 14, 2025

EU wants to boost economic security cooperation with Japan

Stephane Sejourne said that together, the EU and Japan should tackle issues such as China's overproduction and U.S. protectionist trade policies.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 17, 2025

Japan won't recognize Palestinian state given U.S. ties: media report

Recent reports said the U.S. had prompted Japan to forgo the recognition through diplomatic channels, while France had urged the opposite.
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2025

Japan to give disaster-relief machinery to Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is among eight countries to which Japan plans to provide defense equipment in fiscal 2025 under its official security assistance program.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (left) and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands during a joint news conference in Tokyo in August.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2025

Japan and South Korea planning Busan visit for Ishiba

Ishiba is expected to hold talks with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the envisaged trip, the prime minister's last overseas one before stepping down.
Waleed Siam, representative of the Permanent General Mission of Palestine in Japan, at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

Palestinian envoy urges Japan to recognize state after France, U.K. and others

The call came after Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Friday that Japan will not recognize Palestine as a state for the time being.
Visitors at the Osaka Expo last week. Japan will teach Saudi Arabia how to cope with venue congestion during the Riyadh Expo in 2030, which is expected to attract more than 40 million visitors.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2025

Japan to share expo know-how with Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is set to host the 2030 World Exposition.
Japanese and U.S. Flags fly side by side at the White House on April 5, 2024.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2025

Trump poised to add Japan stop to upcoming Asia trip

It would also mark the Republican president's first opportunity to meet the successor to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who is stepping down.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2025

Japan to provide ¥861 million in grant aid to Palestinian territories

Although the Japanese government is not recognizing a Palestinian state for now, it plans to continue and strengthen its support based on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
An empty street is seen in the abandoned town of Okuma, in Fukushima Prefecture, during a temporary return visit by evacuees in February 2012.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2025

Ukrainian YouTuber arrested in Japan over Fukushima livestream

The arrest is the latest in a string of incidents involving fame-seeking foreign nationals behaving badly in the country.
A re-enactment of a procession of a Korean diplomatic delegation to Japan in the 17th to 19th century is performed at a Japan-South Korea cultural exchange event in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2025

Japan and South Korea hold cultural exchange event in Tokyo

In the opening ceremony, Kim Jang-hyun, deputy chief of the South Korean Embassy in Japan, said that efforts to promote cooperative relations are continuing.
A Chinese survey ship is pictured off Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2025

Chinese ship spotted within Japan's EEZ off island in Kagoshima

The Chinese vessel released what appeared to be a wire into the sea.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (right) attends a joint news conference with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2025

Japan to provide about 10 surveillance drones to Sri Lanka

It will be Japan's first provision of defense equipment to Sri Lanka under its official security assistance program.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference Monday at the Prime Minister's Office.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 30, 2025

Japan resumes sanctions against Iran in line with U.N. resolution

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated that Japan's stance of calling for a solution through dialogue remains unchanged.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung before their meeting in Busan on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 30, 2025

South Korea and Japan look to cement ties before Ishiba’s exit

The two countries agreed to continue working-level discussions on low birth rates, regional growth and measures to prevent suicide, among other issues.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks during a news conference on Friday at the ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025

Japan to assist Ukraine with mine removal training

Instructors will deliver lectures on explosive ordnance disposal and conduct practical exercises for Ukrainian soldiers.
A Chinese marine survey vessel was spotted by the Japan Coast Guard on Monday within Japan's exclusive economic zone off an island in Kagoshima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025

Chinese survey ship spotted in Japan's EEZ off Amami Oshima

The ship was found extending a pipe-like object into the sea about 385 kilometers west of the island.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025

Japan welcomes release of Israeli hostages in Gaza

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Tuesday welcomed the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages by the militant group Hamas.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2025

Trump to visit Japan in late October, U.S. treasury secretary says

The U.S. president will visit Japan before he attends an annual regional economic summit in South Korea, though no specific date for the trip was given.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Japan for three days from Oct. 27.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2025

Trump confirms plan to visit Japan after trip to Malaysia

The U.S. president is expected to visit Japan for three days from Oct. 27 after visiting Malaysia, where the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will hold a summit.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is greeted by Abdulla bin Touq Al Mari, the UAE's minister of economy, during a reception in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 20, 2023

Kishida's Middle East visit creates an opportunity for Japan

Kishida visit shows Japan's policy vis-a-vis the Middle East is shifting from the traditional energy-securing economic diplomacy to a more strategic foreign policy.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2023

Japan calls on China to approach Fukushima water release in 'scientific manner'

The issue of the water release took up a substantive amount of the hourlong talks between the nations' top diplomats, but the two did not come to a clear agreement on the matter.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 25, 2023

Low flights of U.S. Ospreys over Japan's mainland raise safety concerns

In June last year, an Osprey aircraft crashed in the United States, leaving five dead.
Two F-15 fighter aircraft from the ASDF fly alongside two Rafale jets and an A400M transport aircraft from the French Air and Space Force as the two forces kicked off Wednesday their first-ever joint fighter exercise in Japan
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2023

France and Japan expand defense ties with first joint fighter jet drills

The drills are scheduled to run from Wednesday to Saturday in the airspace around the Kanto region and the ASDF’s Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture.
A screen displays Chinese leader Xi Jinping, at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing last October.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 28, 2023

China eyes accelerated plan for ‘world-class military,’ Japan says

An annual defense white paper said the world was facing its greatest test since World War II amid China's military buildup and the Ukraine war.
Taro Aso, a former prime minister and current vice president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during the Ketagalan Forum in Taipei on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 8, 2023

Taiwan situation ‘tilting toward emergency,’ former Japan PM says

Taro Aso said this shift was “definitely not out of the blue” but was now “more evident,” pointing to military exercises by China around Taiwan.
The Pentagon on Tuesday looked to soften the blow of an explosive report that Chinese hackers had infiltrated Japan's most sensitive defense networks, saying that it was "confident” about sharing intelligence with Tokyo.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2023

U.S. ‘confident’ in Japan intel sharing, but Taiwan concerns linger

The Pentagon has moved to soften the blow of a report that said that “shockingly bad” hacking had been uncovered by the U.S. in the fall of 2020.
Visitors at the Todaiji temple in Nara in June
JAPAN / Society
Aug 10, 2023

China lifts pandemic-era ban on group tours to Japan

The decision marks the first time since January 2020 that groups of Chinese tourists will be allowed to visit Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 13, 2023

Japan Wind Development chief likely to admit bribing lawmaker Akimoto

It was newly found that Akimoto received ¥30 million, separately from the suspected bribe, from around 2019 for applying to the Japan Racing Association.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel arrives for a photo opp on the day of a trilateral engagement at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima on May 21.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2023

As U.S. envoy to Japan, Rahm Emanuel puts China in cross-hairs

The U.S. ambassador also heaped praise on Tokyo’s new muscular approach to defense.
New ‘immigration minister’ post signals Takaichi Cabinet’s priorities
Kimi Onoda, economic security minister and minister for harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Rare female yakuza walks path to redemption in Japan
Retired yakuza Mako Nishimura sorts fallen leaves during a clean-up activity at the Gifu Gokoku shrine in Gifu Prefecture on Sept. 28.
Takaichi to put defense push in spotlight in bid to satiate Trump demands
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force personnel march during the joint multinational exercise Garuda Shield 2025 at the Baturaja combat training center in Lampung, Indonesia, last month.
Bear kills another person in Japan in record year for fatal attacks
Police investigate at the scene of a bear attack that killed one person and injured three others on Friday in the village of Higashinaruse in Akita Prefecture.
Takaichi focuses on economic and security concerns in first policy speech
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first policy speech in the Lower House in Tokyo on Friday.
Stars align for Kim-Trump meeting — but any talks will be on N.K. leader’s terms
A South Korean soldier stands next to a TV broadcasting a news report about a possible summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, at the main railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.
New ‘immigration minister’ post signals Takaichi Cabinet’s priorities
Kimi Onoda, economic security minister and minister for harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Number of suicide cases among students in Japan hits record high in 2024
The health ministry's Suicide White Paper for 2024 has found that numbers for both men and women peak at age 21, with “concerns over future career paths” being identified as the most likely cause.
The newly formed LDP-JIP coalition may not be as solid as it seems
Ruling Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi and Japan Innovation Party leader Hirofumi Yoshimura sign a policy agreement between the two parties at the Diet in Tokyo on Monday.
AI-optimized cybercrime increasingly targeting Japan
A recent cyberattack on brewer Asahi Group Holdings resulted in the company suspending shipments.

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