At the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD5) in 2013, Japan pledged US$1.3 billion in development and humanitarian aid to the Sahel. At the next conference in 2016, it ...

Japan’s House of Councillors has approved the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) between the Philippines and Japan, which completes the deal allowing increased military engagements between the ...

Japan has been rocked by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake.. The tremor occurred off the cost of Kushiro, at a moderately shallow depth of 44km. The city of Kushiro, on Japan's northern island, was hit ...

Japan's former Princess Mako, who left the royal family in 2021, welcomed her first child with husband Kei Komuro, Japan's Imperial Household Agency confirmed on Friday, May 30.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of births in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time in 2024, declining 5.7 percent from the previous year to 686,061, ...

TOKYO -- Japan is exploring support for President Donald Trump's proposed "Golden Dome" missile defense shield following a telephone conversation between the U.S. leader and Prime Minister Shigeru ...

Mitsubishi's logo on display in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images J apanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corp. has launched its first corporate venture capital arm with a total fund size of ...

Japan has made a huge push for its citizens to recycle, which is another reason for the small sizes of trash cans. McMorran says that some municipalities have as many as 20 different categories ...

Japan has growing doubts that its next-generation fighter project with Britain and Italy will meet a 2035 rollout target, potentially forcing Tokyo to plug air defense gaps with new U.S. F-35 ...

Item 1 of 3 Employees of 'ispace' react as they wait for the signal from the touchdown of its lunar lander Resilience on the Moon at a venue to watch its landing in Tokyo, Japan, June 6, 2025 ...

Japanese graphic novel artist and psychic Ryo Tatsuki has foretold of a major disaster that'll befall Japan in 2025 -- and people are so spooked they're canceling their summer vacations.

Japan’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, Jera, signaled it would consider buying the fuel from an export project in Alaska that has been championed by U.S. President Donald Trump ...