The latest NHK opinion poll shows the approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's Cabinet is 44 percent. This is 5 points up from January. The disapproval rate is 35 percent ...

Russia's state-run media say Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend an event in Moscow in May to commemorate the victory in World War Two. The media reported on Monday that Russia's Ambassador ...

In a Japanophiles interview, he tells us about being drawn to the world of Japanese swords and sword making. It is possible to forge a Japanese sword from steel with just one hammer. Swordsmith ...

China's media say the country started countermeasures early on Monday against the additional tariffs placed on Chinese imports by the United States. The Chinese government had announced that it ...

Raised in a secular Jewish family in France, Catherine found herself at the very heart of the Islamic world following her marriage to a Muslim from Yemen. Her experience in the Middle East and ...

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It says the islands were illegally occupied after World War Two. At Friday's event, 85-year-old Kudo Shigeshi, who was a resident of the Habomai Islands, expressed the former residents' resolve in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is holding his first summit with US President Donald Trump. They're meeting for talks in Washington. Ishiba is the second foreign leader to meet Trump in ...

Japanese real estate agencies are responding to the increasing number of customers from overseas. Some are offering multilingual services and online support. But that doesn’t mean the ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Tanaka said he hopes this year will be a time when people around the world come together to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Alexander Kmentt, who heads the Austrian Foreign Ministry's ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...