Only 10.4 per cent of the Japanese public want Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to win the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership race slated for September and continue serving as premier, …
The premier, who also heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has so far dismissed speculation that he will soon dissolve the lower house for a snap election. Fumio Kishida, Japan’s …
Japan fumes at China, Russia for calling released Fukushima water ‘nuclear-contaminated’ Japan has lodged protests with China and Russia after they referred to treated water released from the crippled Fukushima …
President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. defense commitment to Pacific allies was “ironclad” as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the …
“It is very unfortunate that [China] has continued to use coercive tactics,” one of the US officials said. “We do see that, every time it does, an increasing number of …
The two leaders outlined in broad terms some 70 agreements, many reflecting a more muscular China. Fumio Kishida’s state visit to the White House is the first by a Japanese …
With Marcos also in Washington next week, “there will be an unprecedented trilateral engagement between [the] three nations”, Campbell added. Biden’s summit with Kishida and Marcos will be the first …
South Korea’s president lambasted North Korea on Friday over what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean peninsula, weeks after North Korean leader Kim …
At home, the Kishida administration is deeply unpopular, with public disapproval ratings reaching 65 per cent last November. Following yet another recession, Japan has been overtaken by Germany as the …
Prefectural authorities confirmed to This Week in Asia that they intended to prioritise the allocation of recovery funds towards basic reconstruction that would aid Noto residents, with the rebuilding of …