As the final session began at last month's Berlin security conference, U.S. ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said he ...

Four elderly Filipinos born to Japanese fathers during or after World War II are fighting courts, an old definition of “father”—and time--to be legally recognized as Japanese citizens.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new ...

After a year in office, Shigeru Ishiba resigned as Japan’s prime minister following the LDP–Komeito coalition’s major electoral defeats. Sanae Takaichi emerged victorious from the LDP presidential ...

In this week’s episode of China Insider, Miles Yu discusses the accelerating trend of financial flight, and whether the Chinese Communist Party can stop China’s wealthy elite from leaving the country.

TOKYO – The presidential election for the Liberal Democratic Party will be held today, and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will step down within the month. After the LDP’s crushing defeat in the July ...

TOKYO -- Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan’s outgoing prime minister and his South Korean counterpart underscored the need to strengthen cooperation between their nations, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

The Ishiba administration’s policies reflect Japan’s traditional strategy of balancing its alliance with the U.S. against the expectations of the international community. Japanese Prime Minister ...

TOKYO—The resignation of Japan’s prime minister has set up a crucial leadership election that will effectively determine who will be the country’s next leader. On Saturday, the Liberal Democratic ...

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation less than a year after taking office, following electoral defeats, funding scandals and mounting internal party pressure that made his ...