In line with a proposed U.N. sanctions resolution, Taro Kono asks his Qatari counterpart for the Middle Eastern country to stop accepting North Korean laborers.
Newly appointed Foreign Minister Taro Kono is known as an outspoken, reform-minded politician unafraid of questioning the party line. Like Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kono is a political blue blood. His father, Yohei, also served as foreign minister, and is known for a landmark 1993 ...
The Japanese government plans to export its expertise in renewable energy technologies such as low-emitting geothermal, solar and hydrogen power to emerging economies, a government source said Wednesday. The move reflects an expected rise in demand for energy technology that emits limited amounts of carbon ...
Despite winning return orders in court, foreign fathers are treated like offenders.
Japan-based nongovernmental organizations engaged in humanitarian assistance have asked the government to ease restrictions on travel to conflict zones, NGO members said Sunday. The NGOs argue that their activities are being hampered because the government treats their travel requests in the same way as those ...
The Foreign Ministry has advised Japanese nationals traveling to or staying in South Korea to pay attention to the latest information amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The current situation does not immediately affect the safety of Japanese in South Korea, the ministry also ...
The Foreign Ministry will open the Japan House public relations office in Sao Paulo on April 30. The facility, in Brazil's largest city, will serve the role of publicizing Japanese culture and technology with the aim of encouraging more people to become take an interest ...
Why does the Foreign Ministry insist on drawing attention to wartime Japan when the rest of the world is far more interested in 21st century Japan?
Japan will follow Europe in introducing passports with a hard plastic page containing identity information to make them harder to forge, a Foreign Ministry official said. The new security features will be incorporated in fiscal 2023, the official said Saturday. Experts have been reviewing ways to ...
Eighteen mistranslated parts have been found in the official Japanese translation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership documents, it was learned on Monday. The Foreign Ministry reported the mistranslations at a meeting with the main opposition force, the Democratic Party, on the day. The ministry notified the party ...
The Foreign Ministry has continued to refuse disclosing minutes of a Japan-U.S. joint committee meeting in 1960, even though the document was submitted to a court and is thus considered publicly accessible, a civic group calling for disclosure said Tuesday. The document in question contains ...
The Japanese government plans to send the Foreign Ministry's top bureaucrat to Beijing from next Monday for talks with his Chinese counterpart, in an effort to improve bilateral ties despite China's rising assertiveness at sea, sources said Tuesday. During the stay through Wednesday, Vice Foreign ...
