Japan lags many other countries in addressing gender inequality, particularly in raising the share of women in leadership ...

Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met in London on Monday, with a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump expecting ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and new South Korean President Lee Jae Myung agree to build stable bilateral ties amid ...

A planned trial run for displaying Japanese political advertisements on convenience stores' electronic signage screens has been canceled, an association promoting the digitalization of election ...

Japan and the United States plan to hold summit talks between Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and President Donald Trump in ...

Over 70 countries are set to call for targets to reduce plastic production and consumption worldwide to combat marine pollution in a joint statement to be issued at the U.N. Ocean Conference this week ...

Yusei Kikuchi threw 7-1/3 innings of one-hit ball in his longest start this year as the Los Angeles Angels held on to beat ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says that Japan should aim to boost its economy to 1,000 trillion yen ($7 trillion) in nominal terms in 2040, instructing his ruling party executives to include it in a ...

The government plans to release another 200,000 tons of rice from its stockpiles through direct contracts with retailers, farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Tuesday, in the latest effort to curb the ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator is arranging a visit to the United States later this week for a sixth round of ...

Japan confirmed for the first time two Chinese aircraft carriers operating simultaneously in the Pacific, as the government ...

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, visited a nursing home near Sao Paulo on Saturday to interact with locals ...