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He is frank about Japan’s wartime misdeeds, and will thus help to nurture the vital but tetchy relationship with South Korea.

At least six people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Beirut overnight, Lebanon’s Health ...

In reply to whether India would be a part of the Asian NATO, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on October 02 ...

In Asia, Japan +2%. Hong Kong -1.5%. China closed. India -2.1%. In Europe, at midday, London +0.3%. Paris -0.7%. Frankfurt -0 ...

Only a formal regional military alliance can prevent war in the region, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said recently.

Japanese shares rallied Thursday as the yen extended losses after the country's new prime minister dampened interest rate ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will propose a new happiness index during his first parliamentary policy speech on ...

Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 2.57% as the yen weakened and PM Ishiba signaled no rate hikes, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pledging to stick to the vital Japan-U.S. alliance while calling for it to be ...

Japanese leadership in damage control amid pushback over proposal, which has been described as premature by Washington ...

Japan's new prime minister, Ishiba Sigeru, says the nation's security is at its most challenging point since World War II. He ...