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10th anniv. of South China Sea arbitral ruling

Japanese Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Tomoaki Shimada makes a speech at an event held in Manila on July 10, 2026, to mark the 10th anniversary on July 12 of the landmark 2016 international tribunal ruling that rejected China's claims in the South China Sea under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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Lower house passes bill for imperial law revision

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) bows after the House of Representatives passed a bill for a law revision to address the dwindling number of imperial family members during a plenary session in Tokyo on July 10, 2026.

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Lower house passes bill for imperial law revision

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) bows after the House of Representatives passed a bill for a law revision to address the dwindling number of imperial family members during a plenary session in Tokyo on July 10, 2026.

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Lower house passes bill for imperial law revision

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi applauds after the House of Representatives passed a bill for a law revision to address the dwindling number of imperial family members during a plenary session in Tokyo on July 10, 2026.

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Lower house passes bill for imperial law revision

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara bows after the House of Representatives passed a bill for a law revision to address the dwindling number of imperial family members during a plenary session in Tokyo on July 10, 2026.

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Lower house passes bill for imperial law revision

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara bows after the House of Representatives passed a bill for a law revision to address the dwindling number of imperial family members during a plenary session in Tokyo on July 10, 2026.

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China comments on two 2 detained Japanese

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on June 24, 2026, confirming two Japanese have been detained in China for allegedly violating a Chinse law. The Japanese government said the same day that the two were both detained in May in the northeastern port city of Dalian for allegedly violating a law regarding the smuggling of prohibited imports or exports, without disclosing further details for privacy reasons.

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China comments on two 2 detained Japanese

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on June 24, 2026, confirming two Japanese have been detained in China for allegedly violating a Chinse law. The Japanese government said the same day that the two were both detained in May in the northeastern port city of Dalian for allegedly violating a law regarding the smuggling of prohibited imports or exports, without disclosing further details for privacy reasons.

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China comments on two 2 detained Japanese

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on June 24, 2026, confirming two Japanese have been detained in China for allegedly violating a Chinse law. The Japanese government said the same day that the two were both detained in May in the northeastern port city of Dalian for allegedly violating a law regarding the smuggling of prohibited imports or exports, without disclosing further details for privacy reasons.

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China comments on two 2 detained Japanese

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on June 24, 2026, confirming two Japanese have been detained in China for allegedly violating a Chinse law. The Japanese government said the same day that the two were both detained in May in the northeastern port city of Dalian for allegedly violating a law regarding the smuggling of prohibited imports or exports, without disclosing further details for privacy reasons.

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Revised immigration control law enacted

Japanese Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi (far R) bows after the House of Councillors approved a bill to revise the immigration control law during a plenary session in Tokyo on May 29, 2026, marking enactment of the revised law to raise the maximum fee for residence status applications by foreigners.

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Revised immigration control law enacted

Japanese Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi bows after the House of Councillors approved a bill to revise the immigration control law during a plenary session in Tokyo on May 29, 2026, marking enactment of the revised law to raise the maximum fee for residence status applications by foreigners.

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Japan enacts law centralizing intelligence gathering

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 27, 2026, after parliament enacted a law to establish a new National Intelligence Council to centralize information gathering in response to overseas threats.

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Japan enacts law centralizing intelligence gathering

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 27, 2026, after parliament enacted a law to establish a new National Intelligence Council to centralize information gathering in response to overseas threats.

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Japan enacts law centralizing intelligence gathering

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 27, 2026, after parliament enacted a law to establish a new National Intelligence Council to centralize information gathering in response to overseas threats.

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Japan enacts law centralizing intelligence gathering

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 27, 2026, after parliament enacted a law to establish a new National Intelligence Council to centralize information gathering in response to overseas threats.

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Law to establish National Intelligence council enacted

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara bows after the House of Councillors approved a bill to establish a new National Intelligence Council during a plenary session in Tokyo on May 27, 2026, marking enactment of the law to create an entity to centralize information gathering in response to overseas threats.

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Japan parliament enacts law to scrap gasoline tax surcharge

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama reacts at a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2025, as the parliament enacts a law to end the provisional gasoline tax surcharge.

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Japan parliament enacts law to scrap gasoline tax surcharge

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama reacts at a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2025, as the parliament enacts a law to end the provisional gasoline tax surcharge.

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[Breaking News]Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 4 Kyodo - Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a regular press conference as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2025. Niinami said he will step back from his duties as chief of the association but stressed he did not breach Japanese law in connection with the purchase of a dietary supplement. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami

Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., bows during a regular press conference as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2025. Niinami said he will step back from his duties as chief of the association but stressed he did not breach Japanese law in connection with the purchase of a dietary supplement.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami

Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a regular press conference as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2025. Niinami said he will step back from his duties as chief of the association but stressed he did not breach Japanese law in connection with the purchase of a dietary supplement.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami

Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a regular press conference as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2025. Niinami said he will step back from his duties as chief of the association but stressed he did not breach Japanese law in connection with the purchase of a dietary supplement.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami

Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a regular press conference as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2025. Niinami said he will step back from his duties as chief of the association but stressed he did not breach Japanese law in connection with the purchase of a dietary supplement.

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Ex-Suntory Chairman Niinami

Takeshi Niinami, former chairman of Japanese beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd., holds a regular press conference as head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2025. Niinami said he will step back from his duties as chief of the association but stressed he did not breach Japanese law in connection with the purchase of a dietary supplement.

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Japan's forced sterilization victim

Yumi Suzuki, one of the plaintiffs who sued the Japanese government over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenics protection law, is pictured at her home in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, in March 2019.

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Japan's forced sterilization victim

Yumi Suzuki, one of the plaintiffs who sued the Japanese government over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenics protection law, speaks at a press conference after meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who offered an apology, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2025. The Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional in July 2024 and ordered the government to pay damages. Suzuki was named to the BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2024.

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Japan PM on S. Korean president ouster

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba responds to questions about South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from office during a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 4, 2025, after South Korea's Constitutional Court the same day upheld a parliamentary impeachment motion over his Dec. 3 martial law declaration.

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Japan PM on S. Korean president ouster

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba responds to questions about South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from office during a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 4, 2025, after South Korea's Constitutional Court the same day upheld a parliamentary impeachment motion over his Dec. 3 martial law declaration.

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Detention of impeached S. Korean president

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2025, following South Korean authorities' detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol earlier in the day in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law.

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Detention of impeached S. Korean president

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2025, following South Korean authorities' detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol earlier in the day in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law.

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Japan PM Ishiba

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2024, after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law.

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Japan PM Ishiba

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2024, after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law.

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Condition of Japanese Princess Yuriko deteriorates

Japanese Princess Hisako leaves St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2024, after visiting her 101-year-old mother-in-law Princess Yuriko, whose condition has been deteriorating. The oldest member of the imperial family was hospitalized in March due to a mild stroke and aspiration pneumonitis.

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Japan Diet enacts law to compensate forced sterilization victims

Junko Mihara, Japanese minister for policies related to children, bows during a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2024, after the Diet enacted a law to pay 15 million yen ($101,000) each to victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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Japan Diet enacts law to compensate forced sterilization victims

The Japanese House of Councillors approves legislation designed to pay 15 million yen ($101,000) each to victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law, during a plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2024.

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Japan Diet enacts law to compensate forced sterilization victims

The Japanese House of Councillors approves legislation designed to pay 15 million yen ($101,000) each to victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law, during a plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2024.

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Japan lower house passes forced sterilization compensation bill

Junko Mihara, Japanese minister for policies related to children, stands at a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2024, after the passage of a bill requiring the government to compensate people who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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Japan's top gov't spokesman on man detained in Belarus

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2024, regarding the case of a Japanese man who has been detained in Belarus after allegedly violating its domestic law on July 9, 2024.

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Japan's top gov't spokesman on man detained in Belarus

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2024, regarding the case of a Japanese man who has been detained in Belarus after allegedly violating its domestic law on July 9, 2024.

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Japan justice minister apologizes over forced sterilization

Japanese Justice Minister Ryuji Koizumi bows in apology in a meeting with plaintiffs at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2024, following the Supreme Court's decision issued the previous month that the government must pay damages to those who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery in the 1950s to 1970s under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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Japan top court orders damages for forced sterilization

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expresses an apology at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 3, 2024, following Japan's Supreme Court's order earlier in the day to the government to pay damages to plaintiffs who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery in the 1950s to 1970s under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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Japan top court orders damages for forced sterilization

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 3, 2024, over the Supreme Court's order earlier in the day to the government to pay damages to plaintiffs who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery in the 1950s to 1970s under a now-defunct eugenics protection law.

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No-confidence motion against Kishida's Cabinet

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 20, 2024, after the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submitted a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet over the enactment of a revised political funds control law which has been criticized for failing to improve financial transparency in politics.

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Japan Prime Minister Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, after the parliament enacted a revised law proposed by his Liberal Democratic Party to reform political funding rules.

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Japan Prime Minister Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, after the parliament enacted a revised law proposed by his Liberal Democratic Party to reform political funding rules.

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Japan enacts law for new foreign worker scheme

The Japanese House of Councillors approves a bill during a plenary session in Tokyo on June 14, 2024, to replace Japan's controversy-plagued foreign trainee program with a new system that encourages workers from abroad to stay longer.

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Political funds reform bill in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 6, 2024, after the House of Representatives passed a bill to revise the political funds control law following a fundraising scandal centered around the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Political funds reform bill in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press at the premier's office in Tokyo on June 6, 2024, after the House of Representatives passed a bill to revise the political funds control law following a fundraising scandal centered around the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Political funds reform bill in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bows after the House of Representatives passed a bill during a plenary session in Tokyo on June 6, 2024, to revise the political funds control law following a fundraising scandal centered around the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.