Large-scale protests swept across Japan on Sunday as thousands opposed prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to revise the country’s pacifist constitution. An estimated 50,000 people gathered at Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park,

All of these major developments in Japan’s security policy history crossed long-standing thresholds that had previously been maintained tenaciously, and they have done so without major public pushback.

Japan’s prime minister has inaugurated a panel tasked with reviewing her country’s security and defense policies as tensions with China, North Korea and Russia escalate in the region.

For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next catastrophic quake.

Northern Japan was shaken by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in April 2026, but images purportedly showing extensive damage caused by the tremor in fact show the aftermath of quakes that rocked the country’s western coast in 2024 and the south in 2016.

Is this the ultimate location for contemplative art? Our writer travels to the legendary island of Naoshima – and meets the great creator of its most spellbinding works. Will he step through the arch and find nirvana?

The Kentucky Derby eclipsed a spectacular weekend of top horse racing in all divisions -= at Churchill Downs and in, England and Japan.

May 4 (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Monday warned against speculative moves in foreign exchange, after a brief jolt higher in the yen sparked speculation Tokyo had again intervened to support the currency.