U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who arrived in Laos ... also met separately with new Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. ASEAN elevated its ...

Tokyo, March 24 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 12, government officials said on Monday.

Japan has protested and sought the partial removal of a statement made by China describing a discussion held between Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi, according to ...

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet plunged to 27.6 percent, the lowest since he took office in October, following revelations that he handed out gift vouchers to ...

TOKYO -- The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet slid to 35% in the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo poll, down 5 percentage points from the February survey to reach the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, is seen ahead of a House of Councillors Budget Committee session, on March 19, 2025. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The approval rating for ...

I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. It’s quite clear that Shigeru Ishiba didn’t read the job description when he became Japan’s prime minister. Back in October ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday signaled his readiness to speak before a Diet political ethics panel over his controversial distribution of gift vouchers to new lawmakers of his ruling ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba condemned the game's depiction of cultural disrespect and called for talks with government officials. The controversy arose after a promotional video depicted players ...

Ishiba was responding to a question from lawmaker Hiroyuki Kada of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, who represents Hyogo prefecture, about the government’s stance on the game’s ...

Ahead of the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, has discussed the contents of the title in parliament, raising the question with other top government ...