Sanae Takaichi

Tokyo condemned Moscow’s move against Tomoko Akane and eight other officials, pledging to ‘take the appropriate path of action’

Mao made the remarks at a regular media briefing while answering a question regarding the first court hearing in the trial of Kodai Murata, a former Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) officer accused of forcibly entering the Chinese Embassy in Japan

Okinawa governor wants discipline for U.S. military in Japan after murder linked to Marine

People hold a march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting US forces to be lifted in Okinawa on May 14, 2022

The message was less a change of course than a change of packaging: Tokyo would like its businessmen to hear conciliation and Beijing to hear defiance

The measures come as the country’s conservative leader Sanae Takaichi looks to deliver on election promises, which were spearheaded by vast immigration reforms, in her historic supermajority election victory in February

President Trump touted his "truly great friendship" with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the state visit on Thursday even as issues like AI and trade linger

Yet during his White House summit with President Trump, he sometimes smiled and even laughed, projecting a warmth unusual for a meeting between superpower rivals

Katayama’s unusually frank account of leaders’ talks, which governments typically keep confidential, points to shared concern in Tokyo and Washington over the yen’s continued slide despite their joint intervention in July

Trump offers Xi state dinner guests first-ever tour of ballroom construction site

Japan’s Leader Calls on U.N. to Drop ‘Enemy State’ Label

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly today, she will have a new plan at her disposal to highlight how Tokyo will do more for the U.S.-Japan security alliance

Japan might raise its midterm budget to 3-3.5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product in line with Nato and other US allies, Bloomberg reported earlier this week, as the US pushes its allies in Asia and Europe to boost their own defences

Prime ministers in Japan routinely shuffle their cabinets to refresh the government's public image and to distribute ministerial posts to loyal supporters and experienced lawmakers from the same party

Meanwhile, Diet affairs committee chief Hiroshi Kajiyama replaced Haruko Arimura as head of the LDP's decision-making General Council

The announcement was made at a meeting of LDP executives held at the party's headquarters in Tokyo

A candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling party won a gubernatorial election in Okinawa, bringing to power a leader who approves of a contentious U.S. military base relocation plan for the first time in 12 years

The move comes after the government led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi — a self-proclaimed workaholic — adopted a growth strategy in July, calling for revisions to the current oversight of work hours

As Japan takes a harder line on immigration, its nearly 2.6 million foreign workers are caught in a puzzling bind—desperately in demand yet steadily pushed away

The Donald Trump administration’s targeting of the International Criminal Court with sanctions and insulting remarks is damaging America’s already shaky diplomatic relationship with key ally Japan

A delegation of Japanese politicians has travelled to Beijing this week in what observers say may be a bid to improve relations amid one of the worst rifts with China since the 1970s

While sharing an anecdote about cockroaches in her residence, she opened up about feeling “relieved but a little lonely” after the pests were removed

The group, which includes Gaku Hashimoto, a lawmaker of Takaichi's governing Liberal Democratic Party and a former health and welfare vice minister, and a lawmaker each from the Komeito and Centrist Reform Alliance opposition parties, will meet with Chinese Communist Party officials during a visit through Thursday

In December, Takaichi moved into the official residence, a brick-and-stone mansion that opened in 1929 used to be the original prime minister’s office until its replacement was built right next to it

On Saturday, the anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, Takaichi made a monetary offering to the infamous Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 convicted Class-A war criminals

One of Takaichi’s most senior ministers, Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, arrived in Canberra on Tuesday for meetings with counterpart Richard Marles

The Soviet Union took them from Japan in the final days of World War II, and the dispute has kept the countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities

Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates some two and a half million mostly Japanese soldiers and civilians killed in World War II, is one of the country’s most revered sites, visited by millions every year

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, another Cabinet minister and three executives from Takaichi’s governing party showed up at the shrine earlier Saturday

The shrine honours 2.5 million Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in wars in the 19th and 20th centuries, but it has become a symbol of Japan’s militarism and wartime brutality, particularly in China and South Korea

But separate comments during that interview in which he joked about a gift from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during her visit to Australia in May drew furore this week from his political opponents

Lee instead sent a lower-ranked official from Fukuoka

Nagasaki marks the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing with a memorial ceremony attended by representatives from more than 90 countries

Experts urge Japanese government to give up pro-nuclear stance

On the evening of May 19, 2026, Japanese citizens gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo to protest the Sanae Takaichi administration's attempts to revise the constitution and its series of military buildup moves

Residents in Japan's quake-hit southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto put out heaps of debris for collection as the region baked under intense heat

The heat and a lack of water supplies have added to the challenges in the severely damaged areas where Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi briefly visited for the first time since a magnitude 7.1 quake hit Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu last Tuesday

Authorities ended a massive dayslong search-and-rescue operation Saturday at a collapsed shopping mall in southwest Japan following a powerful earthquake that killed 34 people earlier this week

Time was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan ’s southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tuesday

Takaichi has spearheaded these efforts since she was elected last October

Japanese emergency workers battled Thursday to find survivors from a wrecked shopping mall, as the death toll from a major earthquake two days earlier hit 34 and thousands sweltered in punishing heat

The United States has launched military strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump vowed a forceful response to what US officials described as an attempted Iranian attack on American forces in the Middle East

US President Donald Trump promised retribution for an Iranian missile attack that was intercepted by US forces

Iran’s attack came as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Washington

Patriot deal, sanctions push mark warming ties between Zelensky and Trump

Japan's south-western Kyushu region has had more than 100 aftershocks since it was struck on Tuesday by a powerful earthquake which left at least 13 people dead

Clearly, domestic political pressure on him and on the Republican Party over rising economic costs is fierce

The weekly survey, conducted on 2,505 people aged 18 and older from Monday to Friday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level

From reduced concentration and emotional instability to a greater risk of heart disease, chronic lack of sleep can affect nearly every system in the body over time

Japan is an internationally recognized nuclear threshold state