The Japanese government announced on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama will make a visit to Hiroshima during his stay in Japan for the Group of Seven (G7) summit.
Although icy relations between Russia and Japan show signs of warming after Friday's fence-mending visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, territorial disputes will continue to cast a shadow over the rapprochement.
"Japan is willing to support if Vietnam has concrete request in adaptation to climate change, including drought and saline intrusion," said Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (May 6) in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in a bid to bolster ties and seek to resolve a decades-long territorial dispute.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the latest political leader Thursday to warn of the consequences of Britain voting to leave the EU.
The European Union (EU) and Japan sought to conclude their free trade deal in 2016, which has missed the deadline of last year due to lack of breakthrough in tariff liberalization, a EU statement said Wednesday.
Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi met here with her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Tuesday, discussing on bilateral cooperation in implementing democracy and economic development in Myanmar.
China has told Japan to take a "positive attitude" towards China's growth if it wishes to mend ties, rather than play up the threat posed by the rising superpower.
Japan is to rent up to five Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force TC-90 training aircraft to the Philippines, which will be Japan's first provision of SDF aircraft to a foreign country, Japan's Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe departed Sunday to visit European leaders on issues of global economic growth and sustainability ahead of a Group of Seven summit he will host in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, later this month.
Around 700 people across Japan filed class-action lawsuits in Tokyo on Tuesday against the Japanese government over the constitutionality of the new security laws.
The Japanese governemnt said on Tuesday that the country's constitution does not ban chemical or biological weapons, triggering outrages among people.
With U.S. President Barack Obama's planned trip to Japan in May for the Group of Seven (G7) summit approaching, speculations swirled that he will visit Hiroshima as the first sitting U.S. president to tour a city leveled by an atomic bomb.
Australia's leadership challenge last year, in which Tony Abbott was dethroned by Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister, not only cost Abbott his job, but seemingly Japan a submarine contract worth 40 billion U.S. dollars.
Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday that Japan had lodged an official protest with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) over its latest missile launch.
A group of lawmakers on Friday visited the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine which stands as a symbol of Japan's militarism and honors its war dead including criminals convicted by an international tribunal.
South Korea on Thursday urged Japan to squarely face up history in a right way after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ritual offerings to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
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