Donald Trump’s insistence that “spoiled” Japan imports more US rice is adding to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s problems ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Tuesday to set up a new command center within the Cabinet Secretariat early next week ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of further increasing tariffs on imports from Japan, envisioning a ...

Japan has refused to sacrifice its agricultural sector in response to U.S. President Donald Trump''s recent demand that Japan import more American rice, the country''s Chief Cabinet Secretary ...

Japan has test-fired a missile on Japanese territory for the first time as the country accelerates its military buildup to deter China.

BEIJING/TOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met his Chinese counterpart on Sunday and urged Beijing to promptly release a detained Japanese national.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi protested in a meeting Sunday with his Chinese counterpart the detention of a Japanese national in Beijing and raised “strong concern ...

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told China’s Qin Gang that China should play a responsible international role and called for release of a Japanese citizen detained in China.

Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa will head to China on April 1, a day after Tokyo unveiled new export controls on materials used for semiconductor manufacturing.

Conservatives in Japan are concerned that Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will be ‘swayed’ on defence issues during his trip to Beijing, given his political and business ties to China.

Yoshimasa Hayashi could become Tokyo’s first top diplomat to visit since 2019 Ties between the two countries have been strained by Taiwan, Ukraine and Covid ...

TOKYO - Japan's new foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi hopes to follow in the footsteps of his ally, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, to one day land the top job as the nation's leader. Mr Hayashi ...