Japan

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -More than 100 domestic flights in Japan were grounded on Sunday due to heavy snow...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's cabinet approved on Friday an annual budget of $940 billion that is a record...

By Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will not send a government delegation to February's Winter Olympics in...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government on Friday approved record defence spending, with a...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese and U.S. armed forces have drawn up a draft plan for a joint operation for a...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -Senior South Korean diplomats held talks with Chinese counterparts on Thursday after a diplomatic spat...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's government is not considering an immediate change to current COVID-19 restrictions, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will earmark a record annual military outlay of 5.37 trillion yen ($47.05 billion) in the new...

By Ju-min Park and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan reported on Wednesday its first instance of community spread infection...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A submerged Russian submarine has successfully launched a Kalibr cruise missile from the Sea of Japan at...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday called on shareholders to recognise...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government's digital agency apologised on Tuesday for shortcomings in a new COVID-19...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The death toll from a suspected arson attack at a psychiatry clinic in Japan has risen to...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan executed three convicts on Tuesday, marking the first time the death penalty was carried out under Prime...

By Shamil Zhumatov ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa returned to Earth on Monday after a 12-day journey...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A cluster of coronavirus infections linked to a U.S. military base in Japan has grown to at...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A 61-year-old man suspected of starting a fire that killed 24 people last week in an Osaka...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Japan on Monday to halt a military study-abroad program in which cadets...

Tokyo (Reuters) - A Japanese cabinet official said on Sunday that victims of a fire in a clinic that claimed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate early Saturday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan,...