The country’s top leaders often present trophies to champions of the national sport. But like other women, Prime Minister ...

Weeks into the job, Japan’s new leader has come face-to-face with what it means to cross China’s red line on Taiwan.

Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have dramatically soured, with nationalist rhetoric in China and an apparent threat of beheading from one of its diplomats.

Japan’s first woman prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, now faces a symbolic test: whether to enter the male-only sumo ring to ...

Red-hot shuttlers Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah have set their sights on an even bigger prize - toppling China's formidable top two ...

China has suspended imports of Japanese seafood over the new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ’s comment that Japan would defend ...

For the second straight Olympics, Japan led the women's skateboard street field. Teenagers Coco Yoshizawa and Liz Akama won gold and silver respectively.

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

On Jan. 27, Japan's Foreign Ministry said it informed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights not to allocate any of Japan's voluntary funds to the U.N. Committee on the ...

Amid expectations of a blow to Japan’s tourism industry due to the Chinese government’s advisory urging citizens to avoid traveling to Japan, a right-wing Japanese politician expressed a “welcome” ...

The diplomatic crisis erupted over Takaichi’s comments on Nov. 7 that military force used in any Taiwan conflict could be considered a “survival-threatening situation,” a classification that would ...

As Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru prepares for the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II this August, the United States must, for the first time, fully recognize and respond to the ...