China’s coast guard has increased the tempo and duration of its patrols since Japan nationalized the Senkaku islands in 2012.

The Japanese Diet is scheduled to vote on the nation's next prime minister on Tuesday, which has political parties angling to gain support for their candidates.

Popularly recognised as one of Japan’s three greatest gardens, Kenrokuen in Kanazawa took 200 years to create. It was set out by the Maeda family, daimyo feudal lords who ruled the Kaga domain, second only in power to the Tokugawa shoguns.

The Bank of Japan should lift interest rates closer to levels deemed neutral to the economy given mounting inflationary pressures, hawkish board member Naoki Tamura said on Thursday.

Less than a year ago, Yuichiro Tamaki was fighting to retain the leadership of his own opposition party amid reports of an extramarital affair. Now, the 56-year-old athletics fan is in the running to lead the nation,

I struggled to plan a family trip to Japan, but joining a small group tour made travel easy, stress-free, and unforgettable.

A rush of foreign money into Japan's super-long-dated bonds is creating sharper shifts in the usually calm yield curve as recent political chaos and doubts over central bank rate hikes fan investor uncertainty.

Hamamatsu is standing firm in its belief that given Japan’s economic and demographic realities, having more foreigners in its midst would only benefit the country. One in three of its foreign residents hails from Brazil, and it has set its sights on wooing more Indian talent.

Michael Kim will head into the DP World India Championship with zero practice after visa issues kept him in Japan until late Wednesday.

During her time in the U.S., Takaichi “worked briefly in Washington for Patricia Schroeder, a feminist congresswoman from the Democratic Party,” said The Economist. She eventually won a seat in Japan’s legislature, the Diet, in 1993, and “found common cause with Shinzo Abe, the late prime minister, on the LDP’s right wing.”