Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is the first Asian leader to visit the second Trump administration. He faces ...

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a bill allowing police and the Self-Defense Forces to neutralize enemy servers in the ...

Tokyo scrambled fighter jets after Russian bombers flew over international waters around the nation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said yesterday. “We confirmed that Russian military ...

Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters. "It is difficult to say clearly what the purpose of the flight was... but the Russian military has been active on an ongoing basis in areas surrounding Japan," he ...

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women would be called off, and financial contributions ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a press conference Friday that the Imperial couple's visit is being arranged. He added that Japan has been developing cooperative relations with ...

Kishida and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi were among 300 or so Diet members who gathered to listen to the Ukrainian president’s explanation of the crisis his country is facing.

“We lodged representations to the United States that the comment was not based on the correct understanding of Japan’s policy and regrettable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told ...

The Kishida faction is currently chaired by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi. Hayashi, 63, is younger than Kamikawa, but he is considered “senior” to her within the party. There are ...