Margaret Thatcher-san? In many ways, Takaichi will be a natural partner for President Donald Trump in the region, but has ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, former U.S. presidents, members of Congress and other officials expressed shock and offered their condolences Friday after the assassination of former Japanese Prime ...

On Sunday, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe triumphantly secured another four years of uncontested power, winning a landslide victory in Japan’s snap parliamentary elections. The LDP, together with its ...

The assassination of Abe Shinzō has deprived Japan of its greatest postwar leader, and Asia of a visionary who was leading the construction of a viable framework for regional peace. For 40 years, the ...

Shinzō Abe was the most ambitious and successful agent of change in Japan’s foreign and security policy in a half-century. The former prime minister, who held office from 2006 to 2007 and then from ...

Starting in early 2013, Japan’s Foreign policy turned resurgent with an eye on China. After years of dormant foreign policy, Japan under Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has moved with vigor to secure its ...

Then Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during his first press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012.(Shizuo Kambayashi / ASSOCIATED PRESS) ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced April 29 that the Japanese government will present $1 million to the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian museums of Asian ...

Shinzō Abe’s abrupt decision to resign as prime minister has already begun to fuel uncertainty about Japan’s long-term economic future, global presence, and even the state of its security alliance ...

Earlier this month the prestigious Tokyo Medical University admitted to lowering the test scores of female applicants to bar them from being admitted into the university. This has systematically been ...

No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China’s rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. In Line of Advantage, Michael J. Green provides a ...

In early September Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced that he would be leaving office after nearly eight years, having significantly altered Japan’s economic policies. When Abe took the reins in ...