The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Books by elderly women describing how to enjoy life with ingenuity and without spending much money have recently become popular in Japan.

Japan has begun a $320billion (£263billion) military build-up plan which would create missiles capable of striking China under a new five-year national security strategy.

China accused Japan of making false claims about China's military activities in a new security strategy announced by Tokyo on Friday, China's embassy in Japan said in a statement.

South Korea issued a strong protest against Japan's territorial claim over disputed islands made in a national security strategy released on Friday while cautiously responding to Tokyo's plans for an unprecedented military buildup.

A squadron of Chinese Navy ships sailed through straits near Japan into the Western Pacific this week, while Beijing blasted Tokyo's adoption of a new national security strategy putting itself on a more offensive footing, largely as a result of the perceived threat from China

Japan isn’t known for being an aggressive country in the world of foreign affairs. Successive Japanese governments have taken pains to emphasize their peacelike nature, a direct consequence of Tokyo finding itself on the losing side of the most horrific war of the 20th century. Japan’s constitution renounces the use…

On Thursday, the U.S. government broadened its crackdown on China’s chip industry by adding memory chipmaker YMTC and 21 “major” Chinese players in the artificial intelligence chip sector to a Commerce Department trade blacklist.

Japan's strict self-defense-only postwar principle is being loosened

Japan unveiled a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away from the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades.