Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

Tokyo, April 23 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will visit Vietnam and the Philippines from Sunday to April 30, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Wednesday.

A tricky operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will visit the Philippines next week, officials said Wednesday, as part of Tokyo’s summit diplomacy to maintain a ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a news conference that the Japanese government will continue to do its best. In the previous round in Washington on April 16, the two sides agreed to ...

said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi. "It is one of the top diplomatic priorities for Japan to strengthen ties with Southeast Asia, a major global growth driver and a strategically important ...

The new U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass was in Tokyo Tuesday for a discussion with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

South Korea on Tuesday voiced "deep disappointment and regret" after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering ...

Tokyo, April 15 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Tuesday expressed condolences over the death of former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage ...

Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi declined to comment on the cases at a regular briefing on April 24, but said crimes by US troops were “unacceptable”. The alleged rape in ...