Kyoto-based Mitsufuji got its start nearly 70 years ago as a weaver of decorative belts for kimonos. One day soon, it could ...

Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from Russia, China and North Korea.

Tokyo will closely monitor the rollout of new U.S. sanctions on Moscow for any impact on shipments of liquefied natural gas ...

Geopolitics and shifting national priorities have caused competitors—a German institute and a collaboration between the US and Russia—to fall behind, leaving Japan’s path to victory ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

The centers offer management and Japanese language courses to cultivate and train personnel who then go on to work in Japan-Russia economic relations, the ministry said. Japan, in lockstep with its ...

Japan has decided to deliver cooking ovens to Ukrainian schools so that children can enjoy healthy meals amid Russia's ...

Less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday, new Secretary of State Marco Rubio met ...

The statement may be intended to encourage Japan, which has imposed sanctions on Russia over its aggression against Ukraine, to make a compromise to improve its ties with Russia. The Russian ...

Tokyo, Jan. 20 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo on Monday criticized Moscow's decision to stop the implementation of a bilateral memorandum on the Japan Centers in Russia, which hold business and other ...

Japan has formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tensions from Russia, China and North Korea.