Japan has closely cooperated with the G7 in imposing sanctions against Russia and supporting Ukraine amid growing concern about the war’s impact on Asia, where China has threatened to use force ...

Japan's top LNG buyer, JERA, plans to increase its purchases of liquefied natural gas from the United States to diversify its ...

Geopolitics and shifting national priorities have caused competitors—a German institute and a collaboration between the US and Russia—to fall behind, leaving Japan’s path to victory ...

The Russian government has announced it is ending the memorandums it signed with Japan on the operation of Japan Centers. The ...

Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from Russia, China and North Korea.

Mikhail Sergeev, Russia’s consul-general in Niigata, received a letter during a meeting on Japan-Russia exchanges that was held in Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture, on Oct. 19.

Remez, 24, a fledgling medical doctor studying at Juntendo University, is among the 2,291 Ukrainians who have moved to Japan since the war with Russia began a year ago. “It’s ridiculous.

Arguably, the Ukrainian crisis derailed a nascent rapprochement between Russia and Japan that began to develop after Abe returned to power in 2012. The territorial dispute has a long and ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing the assets of dozens of individuals and groups and banning exports to ...