Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is the first Asian leader to visit the second Trump administration. He faces ...

Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while ...

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a bill allowing police and the Self-Defense Forces to neutralize enemy servers in the ...

Tokyo scrambled fighter jets after Russian bombers flew over international waters around the nation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said yesterday. “We confirmed that Russian military ...

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 ...

Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters. "It is difficult to say clearly what the purpose of the flight was... but the Russian military has been active on an ongoing basis in areas surrounding Japan," he ...

When the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito lost its majority in last October’s general election, ...

“We lodged representations to the United States that the comment was not based on the correct understanding of Japan’s policy and regrettable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told ...

Sanae Takaichi, minister of economic security, gained 8 percent of the picks, Kishida received 7 percent, and former Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and LDP Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi ...

“We have to give students the skills to both survive that changing society and for them to lead that change,” said Japan’s former education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, whose post ended late 201 ...

Senior officials of the Osaka-based opposition party discussed the matter on the evening of March 2 and decided to drop the part before the proposals were submitted to Foreign Minister Yoshimasa ...

Yoshimasa Hayashi, 63, the chief Cabinet secretary, has not replied since 2019 when he was an Upper House lawmaker. The average opinion among eligible voters has shifted from neutral to favorable ...