In July, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby demanded that Japan clarify the extent of its involvement in a potential U.S.-China war over Taiwan. Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s newly elected ...

Japan's population decline is accelerating much faster than predicted by the government. The nation cannot afford to ignore this inconvenient truth. The number of births among Japanese citizens in ...

Japan’s public debt stands at over 250 per cent of GDP, far surpassing the levels in the United States, yet political and public complacency persists in the absence of a fiscal crisis. Amid cost of ...

Japanese society has been internationalizing at an accelerated rate in recent years, with not only the numbers of foreign tourists and short-term students in the country reaching record highs but also ...

Though Japan has begun government-wide efforts to counter foreign disinformation, including developing countermeasures and cooperating with international bodies, it has given less attention to ...

The Bank of Japan should raise its benchmark rate to support the yen and curb inflation, Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker and former digital transformation minister Kono Taro said, as political ...

For the past decade, Japan’s foreign policy has been organized around a strategic purpose: promote and defend the international rules-based order. Former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and his successors, ...