Ms Takaichi, a hawkish conservative, took office in October after winning an internal contest to lead the ruling Liberal ...

President Donald Trump and his top lieutenants then served up a total rejection of the liberal consensus at its spiritual home in Davos, Switzerland. Only for Trump to dismiss the notion of taking ...

Pieter-Steph du Toit has emerged as a doubt for Rassie Erasmus.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election.

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The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...

Japan has reported it posted a trade deficit for the fifth straight year in 2025 as exports were hit by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and a diplomatic rift with neighboring China.

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister; but his case divided Japan.

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A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment, ...

The company involved in the 2011 disaster restarted one of seven reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s biggest nuclear ...

Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima ...