A senior United Nations official has expressed high hopes for Japan to play a major role in rebuilding the war-torn Gaza ...

US President Donald Trump wrapped up his visit to Japan, where he met the country's newly elected prime minister, Takaichi ...

Japan was among five countries elected Thursday to hold a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2023 and 2024. The UN Security Council during a debate in ...

Japan's January withdrawal of funding from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women highlights its aversion to addressing gender equality issues at home. Despite externally ...

Follow live updates as President Donald Trump visits Japan and meets with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi as part of his ...

President Trump met Monday with families of Japanese citizens who had been abducted by North Korea amid speculation about ...

P resident Donald Trump is in Japan, the second stop on his Asia tour that will culminate in a high-stakes meeting with ...

1:20 p.m. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has arrived in Japan, according to the Pentagon. The defense chief, or secretary of war as the administration now calls his role, is due to meet newly ...

In 1977, Sakie Yokota’s then-13-year-old daughter Megumi was abducted to North Korea from Japan’s northern coast on her way ...

Trump is also due in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and will meet President Lee ...

For the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, this week is perhaps the best shot they’ve had in years of substantive progress.