Employees raising young children will also be offered more flexible hours, with work days shortened by up to two hours ...

PM Shigeru Ishiba has called Japan ’s stubbornly low birth rate a ‘quiet emergency and has pledged policies like flexible ...

Japan said Wednesday it will closely monitor the evolving situation in South Korea to determine its implications on bilateral ...

The situation in South Korea might be chaotic, and Japan will monitor how the situation unfolds, the source added. South ...

PM Ishiba hopes to revise the Political Funds Control Law during the current Diet session so that he can have some closure on the money and politics issue. But for the ruling party, the road back to ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed “caution” about scrapping Japan’s crypto tax law in favor of a capital gains ...

Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba is uninterested in lowering crypto taxes for a hard-squeezed populace, as per comments made on ...

“Ishiba does not play golf the best that I can tell,” Boling said. South Korea had outwardly projected calm before the U.S. presidential election, saying the U.S.-South Korea relationship ...

President-elect Donald Trump reiterated that he would block Nippon Steel's (OTCPK:NPSCY) planned $14 billion acquisition of ...

Responding to questions in the Japanese parliament, Shigeru Ishiba said that "the issue of ownership of the four islands is central to negotiations on a peace treaty with Russia" ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about interpreters for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at international con･･･ ...

Ishiba is in a far weaker political position than his immediate predecessors – and has far more international volatility to ...