The Conservative Party of Japan was founded by novelist Naoki Hyakuta and others in September ... possible successors to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: former environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi ...

Foreign affairs turned out to be the hot button for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in his first six months in the job, as he dramatically changed course on Japan’s strategy for dealing with Russia.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gifted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a wooden “hissho shamoji” rice scoop believed to bring victory and an origami-crane-shaped lamp representing peace ...

WAKAYAMA–Prosecutors demanded a 15-year sentence for a man accused of lobbing an explosive device at then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign speech as his trial concluded here on ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to increase the number of international students in Japan to 400,000 and lift the figure for Japanese students studying abroad to 500,000 in 2033. The plan is ...

Okubo was also convicted of conspiring with an acquaintance, former doctor Naoki Yamamoto, 46, to murder Yamamoto’s father. The two were accused of killing the father, 77, at his apartment in ...

Kenji Yasukawa is stepping down as chief executive of Japanese pharma group Astellas, to be succeeded by Naoki Okamura – currently chief strategy officer – on 1st April. Yasukawa is coming to ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced a radical and dangerous departure from the highly restrictive postwar policy without seeking national debate on the change. The administration is rushing ...

OKAYAMA--The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates to at least 1% as soon as the second half of next fiscal year, hawkish policymaker Naoki Tamura said on Thursday, reinforcing the bank's ...

On July 19, the Society for the Promotion of the Japanese Literature awarded the Naoki Prize, which is given for a work of popular literature by a rising author, to Ryosuke Kakine, 57, for his ...

Tokyo Broadcasting System Television Inc. posted photos of scenes from its popular drama series "Naoki Hanzawa" on Twitter. The snapshots feature a number of memorable locations from the series ...