As preparations ramp up for this year’s FIFA World Cup, the Japanese side are coming into the event with a sense of cautious optimism.

This December, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test will be held at the U of A, which is one of 19 U.S. host institutions for the exam. The U of A was designated in 2008 as the ninth U.S. host ...

The Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics Agency said it tested remote operation of drones using tablets from inside a helicopter and autonomous flight navigation. The Japan Ministry of Defence’s ...

As a turbulent year in U.S.-Japan relations comes to a close, an expert panel will consider the state of the alliance under President Trump's second term. What elements of alliance cooperation have ...

Less than a month after taking office, Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi is facing her first foreign policy crisis – one that has seen has seen her implicitly threatened with graphic violence by a ...

Juliana Liu is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion's Asia team, covering corporate strategy and management in the region. She was previously CNN's senior business editor for Asia, and a correspondent at ...

Months before she became Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi said she’d been invited to meet US President Donald Trump. It was November, just after his election victory and several figures close to ...

The final leg of Japan's Triple Crown, the Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger, G1) Oct. 16 at Kyoto Racecourse, lacks the winners of the first two races in the series but makes up for it nicely with a ...

International violinist Timothy Chooi has recently been honored with the loan of the Stradivarius 1714 “Dolphin” violin from the Nippon Music Foundation in Tokyo, Japan. Widely recognized as one of ...

Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) has already attracted a world-first fully-functional ammonia-powered engine, and it is a breakthrough in decarbonization efforts of marine transportation. The ...