The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological catastrophe is guaranteed to reverberate for generations. An estimated 164,000 residents in the surrounding area were forced to evacuate within hours,

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wins historic supermajority in snap election, earning Trump's praise for her "landslide victory" and conservative agenda.

North Korea on Wednesday denounced Japan's new defense equipment agreement with Canada, accusing Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government of accelerating a drive toward militarization.

Japan has been battling sluggish growth, mounting public debt and a rapidly ageing workforce.

Japan has restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after a 14-year shutdown, marking a pivotal shift back toward nuclear power to strengthen energy security, curb fossil fuel imports, and meet rising electricity demand.

In China, consumerism appears to outweigh nationalism regardless of how testy relations have become in recent diplomatic spats with countries like Japan and the United States. It has been common practice for the ruling Communist Party to whip up nationalist sentiment and deploy propaganda condemning countries deemed to be

Shinzo Abe was no longer prime minister of Japan when the country first authorised COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to misleading online claims about domestic inoculation policy that were cited by posts as the motive for Abe’s assassination in 2022.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday won a lower-house parliamentary supermajority at snap elections that she had called three weeks ago. The Liberal Democratic Party now controls 316 of 465 seats in parliament, giving the prime minister the ability to pass legislation unimpeded.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament.

By Rocky Swift and Tom Westbrook TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The biggest landslide win in postwar history has given Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a huge mandate to revitalise the economy, but investors say she has little room to run up deficits or pressure will be quickly back on bonds and the yen.

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