Kim set to cross DMZ for summit
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will walk across the demilitarized zone on Friday for a historic summit with South Korean President Moon Jae In, the highest-level encounter yet in...
April 25, 2018
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will walk across the demilitarized zone on Friday for a historic summit with South Korean President Moon Jae In, the highest-level encounter yet in...
TORONTO (Jiji Press) — The Group of Seven foreign ministers ended their two-day meeting Monday by adopting a joint statement showing their welcome for North Korea’s decision to suspend nuclear tes...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed during their summit talks in the United States last week to urge North Korea to abandon not only its nuclear and missile p...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the resignation of Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda, who last week offered to quit over his alleged sexually harassing remarks. The resigna...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Defense Ministry released Monday a report that detailed a tense encounter between Ground Self-Defense Force troops and a crowd of supporters of an anti-U.S. Iraqi Shiite cl...
There seems to be no end to the declining approval rating of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet. The achievements of the recent Japan-U.S. summit meeting were wiped out by a series of blunders, fai...
The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet continues to fall, dropping to 39 percent in a recent nationwide opinion poll conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun from Friday to Sunday.
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The Japanese government reacted coolly to North Korea’s announcement on Saturday of its suspension of nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile test-launches, and scrapping of its nuclear...
WASHINGTON — The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump remains unchanged in its policy to press North Korea to achieve “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization,” despite P...
The Defense Ministry has compiled a design concept of new fighter jets that will replace the Air Self-Defense Forces’ F-2 fighter jets, planning for the succeeding jets to be able to carry and launc...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States agreed Friday to maintain pressure and sanctions on North Korea to make the country scrap all of its ballistic missiles a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) —Japan has warned its G-20 counterparts that protectionism and exchange of retaliatory measures will disrupt financial markets and heighten volatility. “I told my G-20 counte...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Some 80 lawmakers made a group visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine on Friday, a day before the start of the spring festival at the war-linked Shinto shrine. The lawmakers, mai...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — An expansion of American-made exports including automobiles and agricultural products will likely be on the agenda of a new framework for discussing trade issues between Japan and...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Six opposition parties began boycotting debates in both chambers of the Diet on Friday morning, in a show of protest against the responses of the government and the ruling camp...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination to be U.S. secretary of state ran into trouble Wednesday, even as it emerged he had secretly met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on D...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The latest Japan-U.S. summit talks once again highlighted conflicting positions on trade, one of the focal points of the meeting.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to reduce his ...
The Japanese and U.S. governments are working together to completely denuclearize North Korea by 2020 while U.S. President Donald Trump is still in office, it has been learned. As Trump’s presiden...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Six opposition parties Thursday requested that Finance Minister Taro Aso step down after his effective dismissal of the top Finance Ministry bureaucrat over sexual harassment a...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to create a new framework to discuss trade issues between Japan and the United States during their second-day talk...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would cancel a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, planned to be held by early June, if he thinks it will not be “fruitful...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed during bilateral summit talks on Tuesday that the two countries would maintain maximum pressure on North Korea....
PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to take up the issue of the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea during a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un planne...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Daily activity logs for the 2004-2006 Ground Self-Defense Force mission in Iraq, released by the Defense Ministry on Monday, refer to “combat” and “battle” in Samawah mu...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday left for the United States to hold two-day talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in an apparent effort to coordinate and show unity in the run-up to a meeting bet...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi shared the view on Monday that the denuclearization of North Korea is a common goal ...
The Finance Ministry will launch an investigation led by outside lawyers into allegations that Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda verbally harassed female journalists with sexually s...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The ruling bloc proposed to opposition parties on Monday that a Diet hearing with Tadao Yanase, a former executive secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, be held on April 23 ov...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese and Chinese governments held their first high-level economic dialogue in about eight years on Monday.
Referring to the rapidly changing economic environment for th...
Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda is expected to resign over allegations reported by a weekly magazine that he sexually harassed female journalists, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned on Mo...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has said he supports the position of a local LDP chapter against opposition Nippon Ishin no Kai’s...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Sunday that Tokyo and Beijing needed to work more closely together to denuclearize North Korea, in comments made during a meeting with his Chine...
MITO (Jiji Press) — Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said he had never received reports of combat over a Self-Defense Force mission in Iraq while in office. Recently found daily activit...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will play golf with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday during his visit to the United States, it has been learned. Abe is scheduled to visit the United States on Tues...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss bilateral cooperation in dealing with North Korea when they meet in Florida this week, a senior U.S. ...
Japan supports the resolve of the United States, Britain and France against the use of chemical weapons, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday afternoon following the coordinated military strikes by...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Agriculture minister Ken Saito on Friday released a document linked to a favoritism scandal involving Kake Educational Institution, which is led by a friend of Prime Minister S...
The government on Friday decided to call on internet service providers operating in the nation to block access to “pirate websites” that allow users to read manga and magazines for free online. T...
The government plans to establish a new resident status for foreign workers as early as April 2019, according to government sources.
Under the new system, foreigners who have completed a designated t...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Finance Minister Taro Aso suggested Thursday that ministers do not read all administrative documents submitted to Cabinet meetings for approval. “When it comes to whether mi...
BEIJING (Jiji Press) — Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Japan for three days from Sunday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Wang will hold talks with Jap...
The government is considering requesting that internet service providers block connections to pirating websites — on which people can read popular manga, magazines, animation and other material for ...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — South Korean President Moon Jae In said Wednesday that his country will continue to cooperate with Japan on issues between Japan and North Korea, including Pyongyang’s abduct...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Navy Adm. Philip Davidson as commander of the Pacific Command to succeed Adm. Harry Harris, who will leave the post this spring, t...
The government is expected to face many hurdles in promoting renewable energy, while a draft proposal compiled by a government panel positions such energy as a main source of electric power supply ove...
SUFFOLK, Va. — “An armed group has come ashore on one of the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, and while the Japan Coast Guard and police forces struggle to bring the incident under control, ...