The government takes another step toward loosening restrictions on the use of pre-marriage names by civil servants by allowing their use on ID cards and in external communications.
In an “unprecedented, grave and serious” threat, nuclear-armed North Korea test-fires a ballistic missile over Hokkaido, the first unannounced launch of a missile to fly over Japan.
The government will release the results of the reopened Kake Gakuen probe “as quickly as possible,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
The government's top spokesman has repeated Japan's assertion that U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the Japan-South Korea deal pertaining to Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels when the U.N. chief met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Italy. "The ...
Japan's security policies, including its defensive posture, would "basically remain the same" if the Constitution is revised as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed last week, claims Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
Japan does not manipulate its currency, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. The U.S. Treasury Department's decision to keep Japan on its monitoring list for currency policy does not mean that Tokyo is being asked to do something in response, the government's chief spokesman ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson agree to urge China to “play a bigger role” in halting North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs.
Members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet on Tuesday voiced their approval for using the prewar Imperial Rescript on Education as a teaching material, drawing criticism that the government is trying to bring back antiquated values. While the 1890 edict, which was used to promote ...
Of the 443 state secrets designated by the government as of the end of 2015, 166 were not documented, an annual report by a parliamentary panel has showed. The undocumented secrets included those designated in advance when concrete information did not exist, and cases in ...
One of the missiles fired into the Sea of Japan on Monday landed about 200 km north of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture.
North Korea demonstrated its growing military capabilities with the launch of four ballistic missiles Monday, three of which fell into the Sea of Japan, in what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe characterized as "a new level of threat." Officials said the North fired the barrage at ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga visits Yamaguchi Prefecture in a bid to get formal consent for the transfer of U.S. carrier-based aircraft to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.
