Breaking with neoliberalism will require a resolve to confront capital and political opponents. Does Kishida have what it takes?

From ending aid to China to a new emphasis on health amid the pandemic, Japan’s Official Development Assistance is evolving.

Japan has invested around $2 billion in improving infrastructure in India's Northeast, which Tokyo sees as a crucial part of its own Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision.

An avowed nationalist who advocated that Japan abandon its pacifist postwar constitution, Ishihara was never far from controversy.

Dr. Kasai Takeshi, head of the WHO’s Western Pacific region, has been accused of racist behavior as well as improperly sharing information with his home country, Japan.

Japan has put two-thirds of the country under quasi-emergency measures as it struggles to curb the latest explosion of COVID-19 infections. 

Environmental groups and critics are urging Japan to focus more on promoting renewable energy.

Japan is on high alert after a frenzied series of North Korean ballistic missile tests.

The late Kaifu Toshiki is regarded as a symbol of Japan’s changing diplomacy in the post-Cold War period.

Japan is showing signs of a “sixth wave” of coronavirus infections as the highly contagious Omicron variant tears through the community. 

Criminalizing asylum seekers and stigmatizing immigration is only worsening Japan’s demographic crisis.