Japan is preparing its armed forces to shoot down potential North Korean satellite debris as Pyongyang prepares yet another provocative rocket launch, which could again bring Japan under threat. This time Kim Jong Un is saying the country will soon launch its first military spy satellite into orbit,...

The suspect who threw a smoke bomb toward Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had a record of seeking damages from the government, claiming he was unfairly barred from running for the Upper House election, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday. Ryuji Kimura filed the lawsuit in the Kobe distri...

After so many years, I finally managed to return to my “home” of sorts before the month of March ended, for the long-missed Hanami season in Japan. Currently, central and southern parts of Japan are teeming with flowers and chirping birds ushering in the glorious season of spring. Although it has be...

Warren Buffett is looking to increase his exposure to Japanese stocks, according to an interview with Nikkei, saying he’s been proud of his holdings in the nation’s trading houses. Buffett said his stake in each of Japan’s five main trading companies had risen to 7.4%, according to the report. That’...

While Xi Jinping was being received with great pomp and ceremony in Moscow last week, Fumio Kishida was 500 miles away in Kyiv. The fact that the president of China and the prime minister of Japan paid simultaneous and competing visits to the capitals of Russia and Ukraine underlines the global sign...

TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will make an "appropriate decision" regarding his possible visit to Ukraine, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Friday.   On Wednesday, head of Ukrainian President's Office Andrey Yermak met with Japanese Ambassador to U...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday vowed to expand Tokyo’s alliance with the US under his new controversial military spending plan that breaks from the country’s post-World War II pacifism. Kishida made the comments when previewing an upcoming visit to Washington DC, where he will me...

Malaysia says it will start screening the waste water of flights from China for Covid-19 – but not test travellers – as the Southeast Asian nation prepares for the world’s most populous country to reopen its borders. Anxiety is rippling out across Asia over the possibility of new Covid variants and...

Second-to-last chance to get it wrong in '22! It’s US inflation day. The median market expectation is 0.3% m-o-m and 7.3% y-o-y headline, and 0.3% m-o-m and 6.1% y-o-y core. Nobody knows what we will actually get. Energy prices are still declining, despite massive opacity over what is actually going...

TOKYO (Sputnik) - About 310,000 chickens will be culled in central Aichi Prefecture in Japan due to an outbreak of bird flu, a Japanese news agency reported on Monday.   Local authorities say this is the first such outbreak in the past 11 years.   On Sunday, workers at a farm in Aichi discovered an...