Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of rice.

Shares nosedived around the world Monday as higher U.S. tariffs and a backlash from Beijing triggered massive sell-offs. Trump has defended the tariffs: "You have to take medicine to fix something."

The president said Nippon Steel would invest in U.S. Steel rather than take over the storied American manufacturer. He also said DOGE would look for savings at the Pentagon and Education Department.

Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while paying too little for the cost of American military protection.

In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth's dusty sidekick.

A man threw firebombs into the headquarters of Japan’s ruling party in Tokyo, then crashed his car into the fencing of the prime minister's residence, police said. There were no reported injuries.

Japan's ruling party on Friday picked former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba as leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week.

Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa prefecture, says his personal story is deeply entwined with the U.S. military’s presence on the island.

Kishida's surprise resignation comes as he and his party, the governing Liberal Democratic Party, struggle to recover from a series of corruption scandals.

Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean during a nighttime training flight after possibly colliding with each other.

Born Chad George Ha'aheo Rowan in Hawaii, Akebono moved to Tokyo in the 1980s, won his first grand championship in 1993, the first of 11 such titles, and retired in 2001. He died of heart failure.

Okinawa, which sits closer to China than to Japan's main islands, is the focus of U.S. and Japanese efforts to beef up defenses in Japan's southwest islands.

President BIden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Fumio announced efforts to strengthen military ties, as well as collaborations on space exploration and artificial intelligence.

The film's release in Japan, more than eight months after it opened in the U.S., had been watched with trepidation because of the sensitivity of the subject matter.

An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said