Shinzo Abe

The attack comes despite the country’s famously low levels of violent crime and tough gun laws

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that military confrontation with Iran will impact global peace and stability, as he visits the Middle East hoping to ease tensions…

It’s the latest headache for Japan’s longest-serving premier, who has already weathered two cronyism scandals in recent years

His ruling coalition retained its majority in the upper house in Sunday’s vote for around the half the seats in the chamber

There are signs Japan could be next in the US president’s sights, with the country’s greatest fear being higher tariffs on cars

At least ten people were killed, and hundreds more injured by Typhoon Jebi as it raked through the major manufacturing area around Osaka

The scandal was uncovered by investigators looking into claims the university padded the scores of an education ministry bureaucrat’s son

The rains are the deadliest weather-related disaster in over three decades in Japan

Both main crude oil contracts have been rising in recent weeks on expectations that the president would withdraw from the 2015 pact

The leaders of the two Koreas are at the ‘threshold of a new history’

North Korea’s nuclear programme is "a threat to the civilised world" said Trump on the second day of his Asian tour dominated by the crisis.

President Robert Mugabe is on a mission to seek investment in Zimbabwe whilst on a five-day state visit to Japan, amid a deepening economic crisis.

In the major powers, it’s called quantitative easing. In plain terms, it’s printing money. And Japan’s prime minister has begun doing it in a big way.

Greece faces a week of urgent diplomacy to free up bailout aid and avert a potential default as world leaders press for a resolution to the standoff.

China is holding a day of remembrance, the first of its kind, for the thousands of people killed during the Nanjing massacre in 1937.