Docking a CEO's salary to show accountability for an employee's mistake is a standard practice in Japanese corporate culture

Among the teams that are in action on Saturday include numerous contender teams, including Germany, the Netherlands and Japan.

Japan Innovation party called for introduction of nuclear-powered submarines, changes to nuclear restrictions and defense spending above 2% of GDP.

Japan needs to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined it since World War Two, Shinjiro Koizumi says.

An 88th-minute equaliser from Daichi Kamada earned Japan a 2-2 draw in Dallas in a thrilling match between two teams intent on attacking

Keito Nakamura was not guaranteed to start for Japan at the World Cup. But he is now emerging as a pivotal figure.

Japan’s presence at the 2026 Annecy Animation Festival marks a recent high-water mark, with 25 Japanese films selected across the festival’s competitive and non-competitive sections – up from 18 last year – as the country’s industry bodies simultaneously consolidate their MIFA footprint under a unified booth structure.

After becoming allies to disastrous effect in the 1940s, Berlin and Tokyo are finding new reasons to team up — including rebuilding their militaries.

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A vessel owned by a Japanese company carrying three Japanese crew members safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and exited the Gulf, Japan's Ministry of