The Latest Breaking News from Japan

A Japan district court has decided to reduce the length of the psychiatric evaluation of the man suspected of shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, reversing an earlier extension of the process, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.

Both sides pledged to maintain ‘international and regional peace and prosperity’ as part of a five-point consensus reached during the APEC summit

BANGKOK -- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first official in-person meeting between leaders of the two nations in almost three years, was a first step toward repairing strained relations, but ironing out several major pending issues looks unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida received a flurry of requests, as well as professions of hope, from the ruling coalition before the first face-to-face summit between Japan and China in three years.

A Japanese astronaut will be on board the Gateway space station when it orbits the moon during NASA's Artemis missions, the Japanese government and the U.S. space agency agreed on Friday.

Leaders of the United States, South Korea, Japan and allied countries convened an emergency meeting during an Asian summit on Friday and condemned North Korea's firing of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile, calling for a united response.

The tournament in Qatar begins on Sunday

The tournament is the first edition of the men’s Fifa World Cup to be held outside of May, June, or July

Fans of Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee United, St Mirren and St Johnstone have an extra interest in the tournament.

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday convened an emergency meeting of the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Canada in which she slammed North Korea’s missile test as a “brazen violation of multiple UN Security resolutions.” “It destabilizes security in the region and unnecessarily raises tensions,”…

Australia’s prime minister joined forces with Kamala Harris, Fumio Kishida, Jacinda Ardern, Han Duck-soo, and Justin Trudeau, on issue at Apec summit