The Japanese government has pulled all four advertisements it has recently run on Fuji Television Network Inc., a major broadcaster a

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women would be called off, and financial contributions not made.

Japan has decided to freeze voluntary funding to a United Nations women's rights panel following a call to end the country's male-only imperial succession rule. The government informed CEDAW of its decision to exclude it from funding and plans to suspend committee member visits to Japan.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan cannot accept Russia's "unilateral" move to terminate agreements on Tokyo-funded education centers that offer Japanese language classes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Monday, pledging to take appropriate action.

The Japanese government is closely watching the situation in South Korea with serious concern following Sunday's indictment against President Yoon Suk-yeol, Chief

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.

Tokyo earlier said that Moscows decision to end memorandums on the operations of the facilities was unacceptable Moscows withd

The Indian Ambassador to Japan, Sibi George hosted a reception to commemorate the 76th Republic Day of India. On Monday, the Indian Embassy in Tokyo shared glimpses of the reception on X and said that Yoshihide Suga,

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese government official.

A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti

A Chinese man who wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack in June last year has been sentenc