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Japan has been both cautious and passive about evolving its security policy for a long time. Japan has a well-known history of being forced to change its policies by gaiatsu (foreign pressure) from the United States. Even though gaiatsu hasn't disappeared, we are now heading into a new era in…

Japan's reopening of its doors to foreign tourists has been welcome news to travel agencies in countries with large numbers of people who travel to Japan, buoyed by the steady stream of inquiries they have received since the announcement was made.

The percentage of respondents in Japan and South Korea who expect the bilateral relationship to improve in the future has surged, according to the latest joint survey conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun and The Korea Times.

SHENYANG, China -- Authorities in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, alarmed by an increase in novel coronavirus cases, are cracking down on cross-border activity involving neighboring North Korea.

Workers prepare numbered billboards, which will be used to display posters during the upcoming House of Councillors election campaign, at a company in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, on Tuesday. Hokkan Screen Inc. received orders for about 2,500 of the poster-bearing boards from 12 municipalities in the prefecture and started producing them…

A Tohoku-Joetsu Shinkansen bullet train sporting a 40-year-old design -- a thick green stripe on a cream-colored body -- began operating Thursday.

Projects are seen in many parts of the nation to convert disused elevated railways and roads into walking trails, modeled after the High Line in New York, a tourist spot made from a defunct rail line.

The grand design and action plan for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's "new form of capitalism" was approved during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

German automaker Volkswagen AG and leading Japanese nonferrous metal manufacturer JX Nippon Mining Metals Corp. will start a trial project for recycling automotive lithium-ion batteries in Germany.

Naoya Inoue became the first Japanese boxer to simultaneously hold world titles from three sanctioning bodies in the same weight class after gaining the World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight belt from Filipino Nonito Donaire with a second-round technical knockout on Tuesday at Saitama Super Arena.

BANGKOK -- Leading Japanese restaurant chains are making forays into other Asian markets in the hope of tapping into previously unexplored regions such as India and the suburbs of large cities overseas.