The 122.3-trillion-yen (US$782 billion) budget for the fiscal year from April 2026 will include some nine trillion yen for ...

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, ...

Israel has brushed aside pressure from 14 countries to halt new West Bank settlements, calling the criticism discriminatory ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against Islamic State forces in ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday arrangements are being made for her to meet with President Donald Trump in the ...

Strategists see the yen weakening to 160 per dollar or beyond by the end of 2026, driven by still-wide US-Japan yield gaps, negative real rates and persistent capital outflows.

Russia on Thursday condemned Japan's attempts to whitewash its history of militarist aggression and war crimes, urging Tokyo to face up to its past and make genuine atonement to the victims. Russian ...

Fifty years ago, China was to start exporting substantial quantities of crude oil to the United States under a contract it was negotiating with a major American oil interest ...

TOKYO -- Japan's private-sector imports of rice have swelled by a factor of 104 so far this year as high prices for domestic rice make foreign-grown varieties competitive even with the cost of import ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday arrangements are being made for her to meet with President Donald Trump in the United States in early 2026, as Tokyo seeks to reassert ties amid tensions ...

The Coalition of the Willing, established by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, is a multinational force intended to provide security guarantees for Ukraine ...