Japan is to lift a postwar ban on weapons exports this week as it moves away from a pacifist stance that has defined defence ...

Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country’s war dead on Tuesday that has long ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

Japan will join the largest military exercises hosted by the Philippines and the United States for the first time as an ...

(Corrects Mitsubishi sales forecast in paragraph 26 after company clarification, updates with Chinese Foreign Ministry ...

The KX-3 was a colossal Japanese flying boat concept created in wartime as a way to move troops and supplies across the vast Pacific. Envisioned on a scale far beyond other seaplanes, it was meant to ...

Nineteenth Century Charitable Association event features writer Nancy Matsumoto and the story of her poet grandparents who ...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, April 7 (Reuters) - An index measuring the health of Japan's economy slid in February, government data ...

The Iran war is pushing up "cost-push" inflation in Japan as opposed to the "demand-pull" inflation the BOJ seeks.