Japan

Psychiatric detention started Monday (July 25) for Tetsuya Yamagami, who is suspected of fatally shooting former prime minister Shinzo Abe, after he was transferred from the Nara Nishi Police Station in Nara City to the Osaka Detention…

Japan on Monday renewed its condemnation of Myanmar as it aired serious concerns about the execution of two pro-democracy activists in the Southeast Asian nation, which remains under junta rule following the February 2021 coup. The…

Japanese consumer prices, including fresh food, are expected to rise 2.6 percent in the current fiscal year through March from a year earlier, mainly due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the impact of the yen's depreciation, the Cabinet…

The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine may lead to stronger military ties between Beijing and Moscow, the Japanese government said in its annual defense report released Friday, as Russia's rift with Western nations over the war deepens.…

Japan posted its biggest half-year trade deficit of 7.9 trillion yen ($57 billion) in the first half of 2022, inflated by a surge in import costs amid soaring energy prices and the yen's depreciation, government data showed Thursday.…

Tokyo reported a record 31,878 corona virus cases on Thursday, the metropolitan government said, topping 30,000 for the first time amid the nation's seventh wave of infections, linked this time to the spread of the BA.5 omicron subvariant.…

South Korea's Foreign Minister Park Jin has pledged to work hard in finding a "desirable solution" to the thorny wartime forced labor dispute that has caused relations with Japan to sink to the lowest in recent years. He said this during…

The suspect in the fatal shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe has said that the handmade gun used in the attack "was designed to fire six pellets at once", according to sources. Several similar guns were found at the home of the…

Japan votes on Sunday (July 10) in an Upper House election that drew tepid interest until it took a shocking, emotional turn with the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe on the campaign trail. While bread-and-butter issues…

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday (July 9) conveyed his condolences to his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida over the death of former leader Shinzo Abe. In a lengthy letter, PM Lee expressed his "deepest condolences…