Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was voted Prime Minister by Parliament on Wednesday to become the country’s first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of ...

Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, a loyal aide to outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, won a landslide victory in a ruling party leadership election on Monday, paving the way for Japan&r...

Sir — Shinzo Abe has stepped down from the position of the prime minister of Japan, and left a great political vacuum (“Abe resigns as PM”, Aug 29). The prolonged disease with which ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving Premier, announced his resignation because of poor health on Friday, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy in w...

India and Japan have deepened their engagement in the Northeast with both the countries outlining new initiatives and Japan providing three more loans. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Japan on Oc...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held informal talks at a resort near Mount Fuji on Sunday and visited a robot-manufacturer’s factory, spending about eight hours ...

Facing their strongest headwinds in decades, Olympic chiefs acknowledged on Wednesday there was no “ideal” solution to staging the Tokyo Games even as voices of dissent grew louder amid the corona...

US President Donald Trump, on a four-day visit to Japan, spent what he said was “an incredible evening” watching the Japanese national sport of sumo on Sunday, although the visit left some wrestli...

Japan’s elementary, junior and high schools will be asked to close from March 2 until their upcoming spring break to help contain the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a task forc...

Japanese authorities arrested ruling party lawmaker Tsukasa Akimoto on Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes from a company interested in setting up a casino in Japan, Tokyo prosecutors said.Hour...