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
In the February 8 Lower House election, foreign workers emerged as a central issue for all major parties following a January 23 Cabinet decision calling for 1,231,900 foreign workers by March 2029
More This column originally appeared in China Military. In Greek mythology, Pandora opened Zeus’s box, releasing demons of greed, war, and deceit into the world. Today, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, driven by
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Japan’s OHISAMA demonstration satellite is scheduled for launch in fiscal 2026, embarking on an ambitious mission to wirelessly deliver solar power from space to Earth for the first time. Unlike earlier experiments
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When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called snap elections last month, it was a big gamble. Holding a winter election just four months into her tenure with no real policy record to
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Japan is once again confronting one of the most sensitive questions in its postwar history: whether to revise the Constitution that has defined the nation’s pacifist identity for nearly eight decades. Newly
More Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from Sunday’s snap lower house election with the strongest mandate seen in postwar Japan, a political triumph that reshapes the country’s domestic balance of power while sending
More Japan’s political landscape shifted decisively on Sunday as projections from public broadcaster NHK showed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party surging toward a historic landslide in the Lower House election, consolidating
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Japan’s reliance on foreign labor reached a historic milestone in 2025, as the number of overseas workers climbed to a record 2.57 million, highlighting how deeply the world’s fourth-largest economy is being
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Japan is facing mounting pressure to reduce its heavy reliance on rare earth imports from China as political tensions between Tokyo and Beijing continue to deepen. The challenge has taken on new
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China has issued a sharp rebuke to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi following her recent remarks suggesting that Japan could act jointly with the United States to protect nationals in Taiwan, Global
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A Japanese district court on Wednesday sentenced the man convicted of assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life in prison, bringing to a close one of the most closely watched criminal
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We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have
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A Japanese government investigation has found that 118 orders for U.S. military equipment worth 1.14 trillion yen, or about $7.21 billion, remain undelivered at least five years after contracts were signed, in
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Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority is investigating the loss of a work-issued smartphone containing highly sensitive personal information after an employee misplaced the device during a private trip to China last year, according
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Japan’s demographic crisis is deepening faster than expected, with the number of births this year on track to fall below even the government’s most pessimistic projections. According to analysis reported by the
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