Japan is accelerating a military buildup program designed to double annual arms spending. The country also is revising a security and defense policy ahead of schedule while facing China’s ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. (KFVS) - The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal will hold its annual tree lighting on Sunday, December 7. According to a news release from the Association of the ...

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 — 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 Asia-region ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country’s first female prime minister.

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 ...

Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, appears to be a modern "Iron lady" in the mold of Margaret Thatcher with all the controversy that entails. However successful her ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan’s first female prime minister after securing a coalition with the ...