Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
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Japan’s property market is facing fresh scrutiny from international investors as the government introduces a rule requiring buyers to declare their nationality and the Bank of Japan’s interest rate increases raise financing
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Japan is preparing a major reassessment of its national security policy, with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expected to publish revised versions of the country’s three central security documents by the end of
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has expressed deep concern after US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed fresh sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), escalating a campaign against the Hague-based tribunal and
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged stable and constructive relations with China while simultaneously defending a harder security posture that Beijing views as increasingly confrontational. The resulting gap between Tokyo’s diplomatic
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US military personnel stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island have been placed under a month-long curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while undergoing discipline training after a US Marine was accused of murdering
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China has called for the normalisation of relations with Japan while demanding that Tokyo correct Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan, in the first official meeting between a Japanese politician and
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A newly reviewed wartime document shows that Japan’s Imperial Army secretly prepared for the possibility of imposing martial law in Tokyo in January 1945, amid fears that large-scale US air raids could
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Student suicides in Japan reached a record 538 deaths in 2025, with school-related problems accounting for nearly half of identified motives, as doctors and survivors warn that the return to school after
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Japan is seeking 6.7 billion yen (US$43 million) in next financial year’s initial budget to combat a longhorn beetle that is destroying cherry trees and threatening agricultural production, ecosystems and the country’s
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Japan and China are cautiously restoring dialogue after tensions over Taiwan, but deep strategic differences remain. Japanese lawmakers are seeking engagement, while Beijing continues to demand changes to Tokyo’s Taiwan position. Experts
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Chubu Electric Power Co.’s top two executives are set to step down over the falsification of safety data used in regulatory reviews for the proposed restart of some of its nuclear reactors,
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A striking contradiction is emerging in East Asia. As Japan expands its defence partnerships, strengthens its military capabilities and deepens cooperation with countries across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, China is increasingly portraying
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On a Monday evening in May, Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama sat down for dinner with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a Japanese restaurant inside a 400-year-old garden in central Tokyo.
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For millions of Japanese children, the end of the summer holiday marks a familiar transition: uniforms are put back on, alarm clocks are reset and classrooms fill again after weeks away from
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