TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Tuesday expressed Tokyo’s support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is backed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Tru...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The welfare ministry will consider adding provisions to ban physical punishments of children by their parents to the child abuse protection and child welfare laws, officials sa...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government adopted at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday a bill to revise the civil execution law in order to ease the requirements for handovers of children between divorc...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at a Det committee meeting on Monday, refused to confirm U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement late last week that Abe has nominated Trump for th...

SEOUL (Jiji Press) — South Korean National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang has reiterated his refusal to apologize for his recent remarks calling on the Emperor to apologize to wartime comfort women...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo and Washington are arranging a visit to Japan by U.S. President Donald Trump on May 26-28, Japanese government sources said Monday. The Japanese government has invited T...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday denied the allegation that the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry’s monthly labor survey had been manipulated to emphasize the success of ...

The government plans to facilitate Japanese companies’ participation in management of infrastructure facilities exported overseas, such as railways and power plants, with measures to help them be in...

MUNICH (Jiji Press) — Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Saturday disputed Seoul’s claim that he made no mention of a South Korean lawmaker’s recent remarks about the Emperor during Friday’s meetin...

MUNICH (Jiji Press) — Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, agreed Saturday that their countries will strengthen security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. The m...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats...

SEOUL (Jiji Press) — Japan did not make any protest over a South Korean lawmaker’s recent remarks about the Emperor during Friday’s meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers, the South ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz agreed on Friday to deepen economic ties between Japan and the European Union following the effectuati...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP-Jiji) — Russia and China joined Cuba, Iran, North Korea and several other countries at the United Nations on Thursday to show support for Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro i...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government on Friday adopted an Ainu people assistance bill, which would be Japan’s first law that recognizes the group as indigenous. The government will set up a subs...

A government panel has proposed revising the Companies Law to make it mandatory for major firms to appoint at least one outside director (see below). The Legislative Council, an advisory panel to ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press)—The government at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday adopted bills to make preschool and tertiary education free of charge, a key policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration....

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Yukio Edano, leader of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, told senior officials of the party’s local chapters on Monday to speed up the selection of cand...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government has strongly protested South Korean National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang’s remarks calling for the Emperor’s apology over the issue of so-called comfort w...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday expressed his determination to lead the Liberal Democratic Party to victories in a series of local polls in April and the election for the H...

The government plans to send Ground Self-Defense Force members to the Sinai Peninsula in eastern Egypt to monitor a ceasefire between the Israeli and Egyptian militaries as part of the Multinational ...

As part of preparations ahead of accepting more foreign workers in Japan, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will introduce measures for revoking the licenses of job placement agencies if they ar...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government drew up on Friday a new set of measures to tackle child abuse, including strict management of related information, in the wake of the death of a possibly abused ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government confirmed Friday that it will follow the previous procedures taken to pick the current era name of Heisei when choosing a name for the new era. The decision was...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Wednesday he was troubled by a report that Saudi Arabia transferred weapons to extremist groups in Yemen, an...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that related Cabinet ministers will hold a meeting on Friday to discuss measures against child abuse, following the death of a 10-year-o...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to hold a telephone conference with U.S. President Donald Trump shortly to coordinate policies on North Korea, ahead of the second summit betwee...

The Japanese and British governments plan to set up a working-level panel to jointly invest in science and technology research, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The two governments will exchange memo...