FUMIO KISHIDA

Japanese television stuck to its live coverage from Miami for almost two hours after Japan beat the United States 3-2 to win the World Baseball Classic.

Japan’s prime minister has pledged to provide Poland with development support to help the European country assist neighboring Ukraine as it defends itself from Russia’s invasion.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left Moscow, wrapping up a three-day visit, shortly after Japanese PM Fumio Kishida left Kyiv

Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, killing students and other civilians, in a violent followup to dueling high-level diplomatic missions aimed at bringing peace after 13 months of war.

Xi Jinping is expected to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after returning from Moscow. Putin warns U.K. over depleted uranium shells.

Fumio Kishida, the prime minister of Japan, is visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today. Kishida plans to show his "absolute rejection to Russia's one sided change."

Asia’s stake in Europe’s war was made crystal clear when the leaders of the region’s two richest countries sat in the capitals of Russia and Ukraine in strong shows of support for the opposing sides.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Ukraine early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Ukraine early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise visit to Kyiv and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says his government will take steps to restore Japan’s preferential trade status.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to the Group of Seven summit and announced a new action plan for a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Lars Nootbaar's imaginary pepper-grinder was the talk of World Baseball Classic games in Japan, but the fun-loving gesture by the St. Louis Cardinals outfielder does not appear welcome in Japan's popular high school baseball tournament. When a player for Tohoku High School twisted his two fists together — imitating Nootbaar — after getting on first base Saturday, the umpire told him to stop. Hiroshi Sato, manager for Tohoku High School, defended his player.

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, stating the day after that it was meant to send a message to the U.S. and South Korean militaries.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have agreed to strengthen economic and defense ties.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has urged closer cooperation with Japan on advanced technology, climate change and economic security after the two sides agreed to put aside rancor over trade and historical issues.

Japan and China are both accusing each other of infringing on their maritime territory. China is routinely sending vessels around Japan’s claimed islands in the East China Sea.

The United States’ closest allies in Asia are trying to overcome their historical differences and unite against growing threats from China and North Korea.

Japan and South Korea agreed to resume regular visits between their leaders and take steps to resolve a trade dispute during a long-awaited summit.

The launch came just before South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo.

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, Japanese officials said Thursday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are hoping to overcome historical feuds and domestic politics that have sent relations to their lowest point in decades.

South Korea’s president wants to quickly overcome decades of lingering hostility left over from Japan’s past colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and forge a united front to meet regional security and economic challenges facing the neighbors.

South Korean and Japanese leaders will meet in Tokyo this week, hoping to resume regular visits after a gap of over a decade and overcome resentments that date back more than 100 years.

South Korean officials reported two ballistic missiles were fired from North Korea early Tuesday morning, which flew several hundred miles before landing in the sea.

Japan has dropped its three-year-long masking request in one of its last steps in easing COVID rules in public places. However, nothing has changed as residents continue to wear them.

Japan on Monday dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years, but hardly anything changed in the country that has had an extremely high regard for their effectiveness at anti-virus protection. During a televised budget committee meeting at parliament, some lawmakers still wore masks, though Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wasn't wearing one when he arrived at his office Monday. Dropping the mask-wearing request is one of the last steps Japan's government is taking in easing COVID-19 rules in public places as it tries to expand business and other activity.

Japan has marked the 12th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with a minute of silence as concerns grew ahead of the planned release of the treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant

Japan has marked the 12th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with a minute of silence as concerns grew ahead of the planned release of the treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

The World Baseball Classic Game between Japan and South Korea took place on Friday. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida threw out the first pitch.

Shohei Ohtani doubled and singled for his second straight two-hit game, and Japan overcame a three-run deficit to beat South Korea 13-4 for its second straight win at the World Baseball Classic.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to visit Japan's prime minister next week. Japan will hold a summit on strengthening ties between the two nations.

South Korea and Japan say their leaders will meet next week in Japan.

Japan is the only country among the Group of Seven advanced democracies without any laws to protect the rights of LGBTQ people, let alone officially recognize same-sex couples. But as it prepares to host a G-7 summit in May, pressure is building both at home and from abroad on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government for change. Lawmakers are wrestling over a bill to “promote understanding,” but some conservatives oppose an anti-discrimination clause — and marriage equality isn’t even on the ta

Sen. Mike Lee blasted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for refusing to release a U.S. servicemember Wednesday. Lee says there will be consequences for Japan.

Japan’s lower house of parliament has approved a 114 trillion yen ($836 billion) budget for the next fiscal year.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will likely visit Ukraine's capital before the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May, Ukraine's ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky told CNBC.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other Group of Seven leaders have adopted a set of additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine at an online G-7 summit to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion.

Japan, the poster child for aging society, promises radical spending to boost its birthrate. That’s unlikely to fix the issue.

Pyongyang fires a missile into the sea a day after warning the US and Seoul against military drills.

Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the diplomatic consequences of the war still reverberate worldwide.

Japan's prime minister apologized to the LGBTQ community for remarks made by a former aide. The aide made a remark that he would not want to live next to an LGBTQ person.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has met with LGBTQ representatives and offered an apology over his former aide’s discriminatory remarks, which sparked nationwide outrage and calls for the government to ensure equal rights

Sexual minorities in Japan are campaigning for the government to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people. The U.S. Ambassador to Japan has "full confidence" the government will do so.

Activists are urging the government to enact anti-discrimination legislation before Japan hosts the G-7 summit of industrialized nations in Hiroshima in May.

Ueda would replace current central bank chief Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who was first appointed in March 2013. His current five-year term will end on April 8.

Japanese nuclear regulators have approved contentious safety evaluation changes and draft legislation to allow aging reactors to operate longer.

Kishida’s reported pick to lead the central bank wasn’t on many shortlists. For all that, Ueda may not be a total shock to the system.

Speculation about Kuroda’s successor is reaching fever pitch. But big change is still a long way off for whoever gets the job.

LQBTQ activists are urging Japan to adopt equal rights laws, legalize same-sex marriage, and ban sexual discrimination before the country hosts a Group of Seven summit in May.

Japan’s prime minister fired an aide who said he “doesn’t even want to look” at same-sex couples, sparking outcry and renewing attention on LGBTQ rights.

Japan's prime minister fired a top aide on Saturday after the aide reportedly said he wouldn't want to live next to gay or lesbian couples or even look at them.

"China is not our adversary," Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, "but we must understand the scale of the challenge and work together to address it."

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says China’s growing assertiveness and collaboration with Russia pose a challenge not only to Asia but also to Europe.

The challenges facing Kuroda’s successor look almost conventional. There’s no sense of national peril this time.

NATO stressed the need for democratic countries to work together with the alliance to defend the international order as China and Russia lead an authoritarian pushback.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in Japan as part of his Asia tour, said “our security is closely interconnected” and called for stronger ties with Japan as Russia’s war on Ukraine has made the world more dangerous and unpredictable and believers of democracy and freedom need stronger partnerships.

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is due to step down in April after the longest stint at the helm of the central bank in its 140-year history. Kuroda has spearheaded the most ambitious monetary stimulus program of modern times, with measures that have turned the bank into the largest owner of stocks and government bonds in Japan and made it the last major anchor of ultra-low interest rates in the world. The BOJ’s first change of guard in a decade could have wide-reaching ripple effects in

Japan’s prime minister is asking employers to pay workers more. He should make the market do that instead.

As Kishida spoke to the media, Kihara was captured in the background with his hands inside his pants pockets. Many in Japan believe that such an action portrays a dismissive attitude and is considered inappropriate in formal scenarios. When footage of Kishida’s interview emerged on Japanese media, viewers criticized Kihara as “shameful,” “disrespectful” and “arrogant.”

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida spoke in desperate terms about the country’s cratering birth rate in an address to his nation’s parliament on Monday.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II and pledged to push a military buildup under a newly adopted security strategy as well as tackle rapidly declining births.

A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation.

Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, made the remark about Fumio Kishida after the U.S. and Japan warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Additional classified government documents from the Obama administration were found at President Joe Biden's Delaware home this week, the White House confirmed Saturday.

The White House says lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known.

Biden reiterated the “unwavering commitment of the United States to the defense of Japan.”

There's a growing recognition that Japan needs greater deterrence capabilities in the neighborhood where it sits.

The U.S. and Japan sealed an agreement to bolster their cooperation on space.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is looking to Canada to help his country wean itself off fossil fuels from places such as Russia

The nation’s significance as a geopolitical power has rarely been higher, but that’s little solace for its unloved prime minister.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with President Biden on Friday, as he seeks to rally domestic support for Japan's new national security strategy.

The top national security officials from the U.S. and Japan have unveiled plans to strengthen the alliance to help counter threats from North Korea and China.

The U.S. and Japan announced plans to provide advanced weapons like anti-ship missiles to Marine forces stationed on Okinawa in an effort to cow China and North Korea.

The leaders of Britain and Japan are signing a defense agreement that could see troops deployed to each others’ countries

The leaders of Britain and Japan have signed defense agreement that could see troops deployed to each others’ countries.

The parents of a Navy lieutenant detained in Japan urged the White House to secure their son's release in his upcoming meeting with the Japanese prime minster.

Top national security officials from the United States and Japan are expected to agree to changes in the joint defense posture this week as the two nations confront rising threats from North Korea and increasing aggressiveness from China.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida begins a weeklong trip to strengthen military ties with Europe and Britain and bring into focus the Japan-U.S. alliance at a summit in Washington.

President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House later this month for economic and security consultations.

Moves by several countries to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak — and that the government may not inform the rest of the world quickly enough.

Foreign companies have welcomed China’s decision to end quarantines for travelers from abroad as an important step to revive slumping business activity, while Japan announced restrictions on visitors from the country as infections surge.

Japan will require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there after Beijing largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed his fourth minister in two months to patch a scandal-tainted Cabinet that has raised questions over his judgment of staff credentials.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved record defense spending next year in preparation for the country deploying U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles as part of a more offensive security strategy.

Japan's strict self-defense-only postwar principle is being loosened.

Japan’s parliament has enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage.

Japan has announced it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the U.K. and Italy.

Japan’s top government spokesperson said Monday that the number of babies born this year is below last year's record low.

Pacific Rim leaders are seeking common ground on the war in Ukraine and other dire threats to humankind in an annual meeting that began Friday in Bangkok.

With all the big issues dominating this week’s meeting of leaders of the world’s biggest economies — war, famine, poverty, to name just a few — there’s been little public discussion of North Korea and its pursuit of nuclear-armed missiles.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has COVID-19 and is leaving the Group of 20 meetings in Bali, just days after hosting President Joe Biden and other world leaders for a summit in his country’s capital.

The leaders of South Korea and Japan have agreed to keep up efforts to resolve their historical disputes as they’re pushing to bolster security cooperation with the United States to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats.

President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea are vowing a unified and coordinated response to North Korea's threatening nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

A custom wristwatch from Cambodian leader Hun Sen at the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, a foot-long dagger at the G-20 meetings in Bali, and cricket ice cream and Thai noodles with worm sauce at the APEC talks in Bangkok.

World leaders have expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul, South Korea.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses offset gains in other parts of the market.

Wall Street closed sharply higher, capping another strong week with gains led by Apple and other companies that made even bigger profits during the summer than expected.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a hefty economic package including 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) in government spending to counter the blow from inflation, signaling that the greater concern of its policymakers is that the economy will stall, not overheat.