Against a backdrop of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States with Israel over the former's nuclear facilities ...

Japan requires people changing their gender to have genitalia resembling those of the target gender. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...

The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

The LDP’s historic electoral fall exposes a fractured Japan, where public disillusionment, economic woes and rising populism ...

Japan’s surprise trade deal with the US sent its markets on a wild ride, pushing stocks to all-time highs and fueling a selloff in government bonds.

Analysts at Bank of America said that the Japan deal "looks like a reasonable blueprint" for other auto-exporting countries ...

President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the ...

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito made big strides in parliamentary elections in Japan, capitalizing on concerns about the economy, immigration and overtourism.

When President Donald Trump revealed that his administration had struck a "massive" trade and investment deal with Japan, he described it as "completed"—but it must still pass the Japanese parliament, ...

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving technique for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan’s ancient ...