November 26, 2020
The ruling political parties have grown concerned in response to the voluntary questioning by Tokyo prosecutors of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s chief public secretary, among more than 20 other...
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi agreed Tuesday to resume within this month the bilateral exchange of people via short-term business trips and medium- to long-term bu...
Osaka City and Sapporo will be excluded as travel destinations for the government-subsidized Go To Travel tourism promotion campaign until Dec. 15 as part of efforts to curb the spread of the novel c...
Pre-booked trips to destinations where novel coronavirus cases are rapidly increasing will be excluded from the government’s Go To Travel tourism promotion campaign, Land, Infrastructure, Transport ...
Officials at the Osaka city government’s finance bureau deliberately discarded an official document related to the recent referendum on the Osaka metropolis plan and covered up its existence in res...
Hokkaido has decided to temporarily exclude Sapporo, where the novel coronavirus is spreading, from the Go To Travel tourism promotion campaign.
The central government is expected to respect the Hok...
The cost to build two Aegis-equipped ships as replacements to the abandoned plan for the ground-based interceptor system known as Aegis Ashore is estimated to be in the range of ¥500 billion, The Y...
The Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito and others plan to submit legislation aimed at eliminating discrimination related to the novel coronavirus, focusing in part on medical workers and people who con...
The current Diet session has less than two weeks to go before wrapping up on Dec. 5. The final stage of the session will focus on the intensive deliberations by the budget committees of both houses t...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s decision to launch a review of the Go To campaign for stimulating economic demand stemmed from the realization that some revision is essential as anxiety grows aroun...
Areas in Japan that will become subject to the Go To Travel campaign being suspended will be decided soon, the minister in charge of measures against the novel coronavirus said during an appearance o...
After the government announced a review of its Go To stimulus campaigns in areas where the spread of the novel coronavirus has increased, prefectures that could be subject to the suspension of the ca...
Governors of prefectures where the spread of the novel coronavirus has increased will be allowed to decide whether to suspend the Go To Travel campaign in their jurisdiction, Prime Minister Yoshihide ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed to make efforts to resume full-scale economic activities in a video message for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) event on Friday, calling the resumption...
The government called on the public to take thorough infection prevention measures during the three-day holiday starting Saturday, amid a rapid surge in novel coronavirus cases. At a press conference...
This is the fifth and final installment of a series examining the issues the Japan-U.S. alliance will face in the years ahead.
Working-level negotiations on the so-called “sympathy budget” that...
With China in mind, the government aims to develop a new base for the training and deployment of Self-Defense Forces in the Nansei Islands that run from Kyushu through Okinawa.
The plan is to constr...
With an eye on China’s maritime advances, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison agreed to strengthen cooperation on achieving a “free and open Indo-Pacific” ...
The government has decided to provide financial assistance to municipalities that issue “cooperation funds” to local restaurants, bars and others in exchange for requesting them to reduce business...
This is the third installment of a series examining the issues the Japan-U.S. alliance will face in the years ahead.
The Japan-U.S. defense alliance is characterized as a role sharing of “shield...
The International Hydrographic Organization’s decision to continue using Japan Sea designation as the only name for the body of sea between Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia has been welcom...
This is the second installment of a series examining the issues the Japan-U.S. alliance will face in the years ahead.
The Japan-U.S. joint military exercise Keen Sword, one of the largest of its ki...
The Japanese business community is increasingly looking to the expected benefits from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which made significant progress on Sunday toward coming in...
During an online press conference on Oct. 1, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea expressed concerns about China, pointing out that Beijing has freely developed and de...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, whose true worth is being tested as China continues its military provocations. In this series, The Yomiur...
HANOI — Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expressed serious concerns during an online East Asia Summit (EAS) meeting on Saturday over issues involving the East and South China seas, where China has incr...
Amid the continued tense bilateral relationship between Japan and South Korea, the two countries have increased reciprocal visits by high-profile politicians and government officials in attempts to s...
The government will launch its envisaged digital agency in September 2021, and will bring on 500 employees, 100 to 150 of whom will come from the private sector, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
Th...
Joe Biden, who looks certain to be the next U.S. president, apparently aimed to keep China in check by affirming that Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands in Oki...
Joe Biden, the former U.S. vice president who takes pride in being well-versed in diplomatic issues, had emphasized during his presidential election campaign that a strong network of alliances is nece...
The government recently held the first meeting of a panel of experts to discuss how to get a clear picture of the actual situation of land use around important security-related facilities. Their agen...
The current number of medical institutions designated by prefectural governments as places where people suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus can receive medical treatment and tests ...
The government’s subcommittee on novel coronavirus measures discussed ways to deal with a nationwide surge in cases and infection clusters at a meeting on Thursday. The committee was expected to d...
The United Nations marked the 75th anniversary of its establishment on Saturday. Born through the lessons learned from World War II, it has received support from the international community as a driv...
