IN HIGH SCHOOL, Ishiba Shigeru joined the golf club. But he abandoned the sport after entering politics. The elitist hobby ...

Days after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, Japan's then-prime minister Shinzo Abe rushed to deliver him a gold-plated ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his wife, Yoshiko, on Sunday moved into the prime minister's official residence from a dormitory for members of the House of Representatives, both in central Tokyo.

"When the expectations are great," a well-known saying goes, "so are the disappointments." Perhaps more than anyone to date, ...

Shigeru Ishiba appointed key allies to his newly inaugurated Cabinet to pursue his national security projects, but his plans face one formidable outside opponent: the United States. The new prime ...

(Kyodo News via AP) Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, right, with his wife Yoshiko, center, departs for Malaysia and Indonesia, at the airport in Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Kyodo News ...

Japan PM Ishiba is seeking to arrange a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.