Japan plays a key role in containing China under the U.S. island chain strategy, which conceives three north-south defensive ...

Conceived in secret, Japan’s I-400 submarines were meant to change the war. With the ability to carry and launch full-size bombers, they could have attacked New York, Washington, and San Francisco ...

To mark the two-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas conflict on Tuesday, October 7, rallies were held in various places across Tokyo, including Shibuya and outside the Israeli Embassy, with ...

The party, which has dominated Japanese politics for 70 years, faces challenges from upstarts on the hard right, such as ...

Sources say the new head of Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Takaichi Sanae, is considering forgoing her visit ...

Ms. Takaichi would be Japan’s first female prime minister in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the ...

Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, was elected as leader by Japan’s embattled governing party, paving the way for her ...

Japan is set to have its first-ever female prime minister after Takaichi Sanae won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ...

The call by Yoshimasa Hayashi, a top LDP politician, may help mend ties between Japan and the region over its WWII history if ...

More than two years after BYD Co.’s entry into the Japanese market, the Chinese carmaker is still struggling to win over ...

The new leader will take the helm of the world’s fourth-largest economy at a time of unusual political instability, rising ...

And while the LDP has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, it’s now in a precarious position as it prepares ...