Yoshihide Suga

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government on Friday approved record defence spending, with a 10th straight annual increase in 2022, against a backdrop of China's rapid military…

A voter casts a ballot in the lower house elections as representatives of a local election administration commission observes at a polling station Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo…

Issued on: 29/09/2021 - 04:33 Japan's ruling party picks its new leader Wednesday, with a mild-mannered former foreign minister and…

WASHINGTON: Amid growing security concern over misuse of 5G technologies by Chinese companies, leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India on Friday agreed to advance the…

Tokyo’s two international airports Haneda and Narita were clogged a day after an unusual Olympics came to an end on August 8. The Olympic traffic was departing while Paralympic contingents…

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who memorably dressed up as the titular plumber from the Super Mario video game to promote the Tokyo Olympics in Rio, will not attend the opening…

TOKYO: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Tuesday praised medical workers and volunteers for making the Tokyo Games possible amid the coronavirus pandemic and…

The foundation stone for Rudraksh was laid in 2015 during a visit to Varanasi by then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Image credit: PM Narendra Modi on Twitter)Prime Minister Narendra…

TOKYO: Two visiting Olympic delegation members have tested positive for COVID-19, media said on Friday, underscoring the risk of holding the postponed Tokyo 2020 Games even after most…

Sports ruling bodies expressed their disappointment at the decision of Olympics organisers to ban spectators from the July 23-Aug. 8 Tokyo Games but understood Japan's need to take drastic…