The government has compiled a policy to make full use of nuclear power — a major shift from its stance of reducing the ...

In September 2012, the administration of then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan adopted a new energy strategy that sought to end nuclear power generation ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday reversed course on his government's controversial plan to raise medical ...

Ishiba made the announcement in response to a question from Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional ...

(Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP) Ryuji Kimura, center, is caught by police after he threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign event at a fishing ...

A court found the assailant guilty of attempted murder in the 2023 attack on Fumio Kishida, then prime minister. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo A court in western Japan ...

The minister, Yoji Muto, is expected to negotiate with U.S. officials ahead of global tariffs that could damage Japanese ...

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison ...

Man Who Attacked Japan's Ex-Prime Minister Kishida Is Convicted and Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at ...