Victory in the LDP's presidential election in autumn will put him in the running to surpass Nobusuke Kishi, who held office ...

Call it a cyclecar or a microcar, the Suminoe Engineering Works Flying Feather was the right car at the right time for ...

What new issues might we introduce to subvert accepted understandings of the postwar era and its various sub-eras? Moreover, how might Japan's internal postwar be expanded by rethinking the era ...

War pacifism and is working to become a major military power. The turn is historic, and promises to transform the geopolitics ...

Tokyo, April 22 (Jiji Press)--Prime Minister Fumio Kishida marked 932 days in office Monday, tying Ryutaro Hashimoto as the eighth-longest-serving prime minister in Japan since the end of World ...

Conductor Seiji Ozawa, who led postwar Japan’s classical music world and remained at the forefront of some of the greatest symphonies on the planet, died of heart failure on Feb. 6. He was 88.

But the two fell short of victory in the closest party leadership election in Japan’s postwar history. Ikeda emerged with 242 votes for the party presidency to 160 for Sato, 72 for Fujiyama.

However hard it is to expand the canon, legwork must always be done. In my own time I've seen the understanding of ...

Okaguchi, who had already been suspended from duty, became the eighth judge dismissed in an impeachment trial in postwar Japan and the first sacked over acts of expression. Okaguchi lost his ...

[Photo/Agencies] A revision to end the de facto ban on the overseas exports of deadly weapons manufactured in Japan signifies the country's abandonment of its consistent postwar peace policy ...

Japan's cabinet has approved the export of new fighter jets it is developing with the UK and Italy, in the latest move away from its pacifist policies. It eased arms export rules to allow the jets to ...