Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday expressed his disappointment after Japan were beat 4- 1 by Colombia in the last game of the Group C in the soccer Brazil World Cup.
Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) plan to meet next week in China over the abduction of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s as the DPRK agreed earlier to launch new investigations, according to local media Wednesday.
Japan's second-largest opposition party the Japan Restoration Party (JRP) formally decided to dissolve after an extraordinary party meeting in Osaka, local media reported Sunday.
Japan began to promote its enterprises to proactively involve in joint international development of weapons, including fighters, according to a new defense industry strategy adopted by Japan's Defense Ministry on Thursday.
Japan's ruling coalition confirmed Thursday that the current cabinet session, which will end Sunday, will not approve Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attempt to make Japan exercise the collective self-defense rights, saying they need more time to continue discussion.
The South Korean Navy on Friday conducted a live-fire drill in eastern waters, despite Japan's call for cancellation, to strengthen its capability to detect and strike the possibly invading submarines from the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Japan's minimum voting age was officially lowered to 18 from 20 as a revised national referendum law took effect on Friday, in a effort by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to amend the country's war-renouncing pacifist constitution.
Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will hold talks on Pyongyang's abduction of Japanese citizens, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday.
A 5.8-magnitude quake jolted Fukushima Prefecture in northeast Japan Monday at around 5:14 local time with tremor being felt in the country's capital, Tokyo.
It was not to be the dream start Japan's Samurai Blue had been hoping for in the decisive opening game of their World Cup campaign that saw them fall to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Cote d'Ivoire Sunday local time.
Japan's House of Councilors on Friday passed a bill to revise the referendum law as part of effort to achieve Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal to amend the pacifist Constitution, local media reported.
Japan and Australia Wednesday held their 5th round of "two-plus-two" talks involving foreign and defense chiefs from both sides and vowed to enhance bilateral security and defense cooperation, especially in the area of submarine technology transfer.
The Japanese government consulted with relevant officials in the U.S. government regarding the conclusion of talks held between Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Stockholm last month, local media reported Wednesday.
The Japanese government consulted with relevant officials in the U.S. government regarding the conclusion of talks held between Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Stockholm last month, local media reported Wednesday.
Japan will help upgrade inland water transport system in Myanmar for national transport sector development, official media reported Thursday.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. on Tuesday applied to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to assess the safety of its No. 1 reactor at the utility's Higashidori nuclear power facility in Aomori Prefecture in the northeast of Japan.
Japan and Australia will hold their "two-plus-two" meeting Wednesday with an eye on enhancing bilateral defense cooperation.
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