Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s final overseas trip to South Korea was intended to pave the way for his successor to inherit ...

Japan’s outgoing prime minister and his South Korean counterpart underscored the need to strengthen cooperation between their ...

Trade envoy Ryosei Akazawa noted that the pact setting on most Japanese exports to the U.S. at 15% was comparable to a deal ...

S/ Ishiba Shigeru, Japanese Prime Minister / I once again felt the need for Japan to make efforts so that close ...

PM Ishiba Shigeru laid flowers on the grave of Lee Su-hyon in Busan on September 30. The South Korean student died trying to rescue a stranger who fell onto Tokyo train tracks in 2001.

Regardless of who becomes the next prime minister, Korea-Japan relations have no choice but to cooperate.” Nagashima Akihisa, ...

Japan’s outgoing prime minister shares the foreign policy agenda he would have pursued during his farewell tour.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung looked to regularize “shuttle diplomacy,” but much may ...

Japan will get its second prime minister in just over a year when the ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a leadership ...

Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday, with Chinese markets closed for a weeklong holiday, as a U.S. government shutdown loomed. Japan 's Nikkei 225 index shed 1.2% to 44,411.26 after the Bank of ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (standing) addresses a dinner party for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (4th from R) at a hotel in the southeastern port city of Busan on Sept. 30, 2025, in ...

William Sposato is a Tokyo-based journalist who has been a contributor to Foreign Policy since 2015. He has been following ...