TOKYO — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner ...

President Donald Trump reaffirmed the United States’s long-running alliance with Japan in a meeting with its new prime minister. Trump met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo for the first ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Months before she became Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi said she’d been invited to meet US President Donald Trump. It was November, just after his election victory and several ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Indo-Pacific security expert Michael Fullilove about US-Australian relations ahead of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to the White House Monday.