Surprisingly, tourism also exists in Oymyakon, the coldest city in the world. While summer is certainly more tolerable than ...

Tokyo — Japan is barreling forward with efforts to significantly boost its military capabilities to stand up to China’s growing threats by doubling annual arms spending. The goal comes as Tokyo’s main ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's F-15 fighters holding a joint military drill with the U.S. B-52 bomber on Dec. 10, 2025. (Japan's Ministry of Defense/AP) Japan is barreling forward with efforts to ...

Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is not backing off from comments about Taiwan that enraged China. Many of Japan’s voters like her stance. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan made remarks ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and former Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru held their first summit meeting during the G-7 Summit in Canada in June, immediately following Lee’s inauguration ...

TOKYO (AP) — Just days after taking office, Japan’s new leader faces a series of back-to-back foreign policy tests, with a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo sandwiched between ...

Japan's first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a conservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a penchant for heavy metal music. Japan's parliament elected Takaichi on Tuesday ...

Tokyo — Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner ...

In Japan, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi has made history as the nation’s first female prime minister. Takaichi is an archconservative protégé of the late former leader Shinzo Abe ...

TOKYO -- Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her governing party secured a crucial coalition partner. Takaichi, 64, is set to replace Prime Minister Shigeru ...