The Japanese government said it is responding to "crimes and nuisances committed by some foreigners and inappropriate use of ...

China has strongly protested against Japan after the recent visit of Taiwan’s Foreign Minister to the country. The Chinese ...

Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya's xenophobic views, antisemitic remarks and emphasis on Japan’s ethnic purity have raised alarms ...

Japan's political landscape is expected to become increasingly unstable following the ruling coalition's defeat in Sunday's ...

The Trump effect—embodied in both American policy and its global ideological footprint—has found fertile ground in Japan’s ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

No country can successfully manage 21st-century challenges alone. What is missing is a coherent and effective multilateral ...

Potential challengers include Sanae Takaichi, who came second to Ishiba in last year’s LDP leadership race; Takayuki Kobayashi, a former minister for economic security; and Shinjiro Koizumi, son of ...

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election. Sanseito ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he intended to stay on even as his ruling coalition is certain to lose control of the upper house in Sunday's election, per Bloomberg.

Populist Sanseito’s rise is eroding the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s dominance and reshaping Japan’s traditionally staid ...

Japan is in political flux after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition lost its upper house majority for the first ...