The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country’s traditional staple food.

Japanese farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after remarks he made about rice triggered a firestorm of criticism ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just as Japan's top trade negotiator traveled to Washington for another round of tariff talks last week, a bipartisan delegation bearing the name of "Japan-China Friendship" wrapped ...

elected Japan's prime minister in October, has a more neutral view on his country's wartime history than the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his two successors. Weeks after taking office ...

spoke with the Prime Minister of Japan, Ishiba Shigeru. Prime Minister Ishiba congratulated Prime Minister Carney on his election. Prime Minister Carney underscored the importance of the Indo ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and President Ferdinand ... A month prior in January 2025, before Trump took office, Ishiba visited Malaysia and Indonesia. In these visits, Ishiba ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on his first visit to the Philippines since assuming office in October, said both leaders opposed "attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea ...

Japan also considers Russia to be a dangerous and unpredictable neighbour, exemplified by Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022. The previous prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida ...

Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan The leaders of Japan and the Philippines have pledged to strengthen further their security ties, including increased intelligence sharing, against a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on his first visit to the Philippines since assuming office in October 2024, said he and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr opposed “attempts to ...