which was written under the direction of the US while occupying the country for the years after WW2. When you have no understanding ... Use the money we spend on these American bases and personnel on ...

After six years of fierce fighting ... Reconstruction efforts in Japan were overseen by Allied forces, led by General Douglas MacArthur. Top priorities included demilitarizing the country, rebuilding ...

That ship sank along with three other IJN carriers in June 1942 during the Battle of Midway, after being struck by dive bombers from the USS Yorktown. It is not clear if Japan would rely on this ...

(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Japan marked its 78th Constitution Memorial ... he issued a series of exclusionary executive orders soon after taking office, such as supercharging immigration enforcement.

Twice Olympic triathlon medallist Hayden Wilde is recovering in a Japanese hospital with broken bones and injured lungs after a bike crash, the New Zealander said on social media. The 27-year-old ...

The yen weakened after the Bank of Japan halved its economic-growth forecast, citing uncertainty around President Trump’s tariff war. The central bank expects growth of 0.5% in the 12 months ...

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Beijing and Tokyo exchanged diplomatic protests after an unknown Japanese group flew ... lodged a protest with the chief minister of Japan’s embassy, Yokochi Akira, over the alleged intrusion ...

With an unusually gloomy outlook for both the economy and inflation target, the central bank has just made it more difficult to keep raising rates. Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist ...

Bullet train services in western Japan were halted for about two hours Monday evening after railway workers noticed that a person had been hit by a running train, JR West said. The Sanyo Shinkansen ...