Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says the body will help tackle issues that have made ‘the public feel uneasy and cheated’.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is seeking to hold talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, possibly on Friday, during his visit to Japan for the World Exposition, government ...

A turbulent political landscape expected after the July 20 House of Councillors election could prolong the Bank of Japan's rate hike ...

Japan launches government body to address over-tourism and unruly foreigners - Japan welcomed a record 36 million tourists in ...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has dominated the country for the last 70 years, losing control of the government only twice. A five-year-old party cobbled together on social media during the ...

USD/JPY revisits the two-month high around 148.00 ahead of the US CPI data for June. Japan’s Ishiba is expected to meet US Bessent this week. The US inflation is expected to have grown at a faster ...

The number of foreign residents reached a record high of about 3.8 million last year, though this still represents only 3% of ...

Japanese bond yields rose as investors worried Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition could lose its upper-house majority, raising the prospect of a freer-spending government. Yields on ...

The LDP’s grudging embrace of TikTok highlights a striking change: Japanese politics is moving into a messy new era.

The Japanese government set up a new agency on July 15 to coordinate policies related to foreign residents, aiming to tighten measures against crimes and disruptive behavior by some foreigners living ...

Japan on Tuesday set up an administrative body aimed at easing citizens’ concerns over the rapid rise in the number of foreigners in recent years, as policies concerning non-Japanese residents emerge ...

"As Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said, the security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific region is indivisible," Akira Muto stressed ...