By bno - Taipei Office Japan’s defence minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, is weighing a visit to Washington in mid-January for his first round of in-person talks with US counterpart Pete Hegseth since taking ...

Japan is giving the United States 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that are being ripped out this summer as construction crews work to repair the crumbling seawall around the ...

Great powers have always pursued their interests at the expense of smaller states, but the brazenness on display now is ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may have an abysmal approval rating back home, but he’s the man of the hour in Washington. The Japanese premier is spending a few days in Washington for ...

After Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi initiated a confrontation with China in November, she found to her surprise that the ...

In Japan, the giving of gifts between friends isn’t just a token of appreciation; it’s a solemn ceremony. So you know that when they do it on a national scale, the results are going to be impressive ...