As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

Takaichi will likely seek to follow the Abe line, but domestic politics (and the U.S.) may constrain her choices.

Renowned Japan expert Sheila Smith discusses the country’s historic election of its first female prime minister, her politics ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces significant foreign policy challenges just days after taking office ...

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Minoru has outlined how the new government under Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae will ...

Having won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership election on October 4, Sanae Takaichi’s road to becoming ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has made addressing issues related to foreign nationals one of her key policy agendas.

Despite Prime Minister Takaichi’s immigration stance, some doubt she’ll go far enough to satisfy their demands.

With the Yom Kippur War or Fourth Arab-Israeli War in 1973, the minimal diplomatic and economic relations between Japan and ...

History is made as a late political challenge by Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ fails to prosper against Sanai Takaichi. Mr. Kirk, based in Seoul and Washington, has been covering Asia for decades for newspapers ...

Japan has pledged $122,999 (over Shs400 million) to bolster education and food security for refugees in Uganda’s Kyangwali ...