Japan's new prime minister will be formally elected by parliament on October 1 following next week's leadership contest, a ...

TOKYO: Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is scheduled to travel to the United States on Sept 21, in what will be his final overseas trip as prime minister, as he will soon step down from that position ...

Fumio Kishida was elected as Japan’s newest prime minister by both the Lower and Upper houses of the Diet on Oct. 4. He is the 35th prime minister in the postwar period. At around 1:25 p.m ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s personnel changes may be designed to give his administration a fresh start, but insiders say the process shows he has lost his hold on the ruling Liberal ...

Fumio Kishida is on his way out, and local businesses have rated his results via a Teikoku Databank survey. Kishida scored worse overall than the previous PM, Shinzo Abe, as Japanese companies and ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appointed his eldest son as executive secretary in charge of political affairs on Oct. 4. Shotaro Kishida, 31, worked previously as a government-paid secretary at his ...

On Wednesday, a 10-year-old boy of Japanese origin was suddenly attacked with a knife by a 44-year-old Chinese man near the ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will appoint Gen Nakatani, a former defense minister, to a new post of special adviser to the prime minister on human rights issues to deal with abuses in China ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to step up his country’s effort to defend a rules-based international order in a peace pledge made Thursday on the 79th anniversary of Japan's defeat ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gifted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a wooden “hissho shamoji” rice scoop believed to bring victory and an origami-crane-shaped lamp representing peace ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s surprise visit to Kyiv was his declaration to the world of Japan’s resolve to never condone Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to continue to support Ukraine to ...

A day after the Tokyo stock market had its biggest fall since 1987, Yuri Sekiya decided it was time to heed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s longstanding call for Japanese citizens to invest more ...