TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday expressed its "full confidence" that the United States will fulfill its obligations under a bilateral security treaty to defend the Asian nation, after President Donald Trump questioned the long-standing pact, calling it nonreciprocal.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi indicates that Tokyo's absence from this week's meeting is due to the treaty being incompatible with U.S. nuclear deterrence.

A Japanese high court has ruled that Japan’s refusal to legally recognize same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, a latest victory for the same sex couples and supporters seeking equal rights

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)--Raising the ratio ... Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Wednesday. "What's important is the substance of our defense capabilities," Hayashi told a news ...

Tokyo, March 7 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese ... Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday. "The government is fully confident that the United States will fulfill the obligation by ...

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday, noting U.S. nuclear deterrence is crucial to the country’s security and that its participation would send the “wrong message.

Investors have balked at the project, stalling its progress. But under the threat of tariffs, Japan and South Korea have started exploring ways to invest in Alaska L.N.G.

A bullet train on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line made an emergency stop near a station in Tokyo on Thursday after two cars decoupled, the

UNITED STATES President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the US-Japan Security Treaty, highlighting the fact that the US is obliged to defend Japan under the agreement but Japan does not offer the same security guarantees in return,

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Wednesday that other nations do not decide its defence budget after U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for a top Pentagon policy role called for Tokyo to spend more to counter China.

TOKYO — Japan will not attend a U.N. conference ... Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Japan’s national security is the primary reason it will not participate as an observer ...