Japan Politics News

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Okinawa Gov Hirokazu Nakaima will hold talks Monday in Tokyo over the relocation of a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa Prefecture, which has become a major sticking point in U.S.-Japan ties, prefectural officials said Friday....

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday discussed U.S. President Barack Obama’s new war strategy in Afghanistan to be announced soon, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. Their talks, which the United States offered to hold in order to explain...

Norinchukin Bank said Thursday its parent-only net profit in the first six months of fiscal 2009 marked a 5.9-fold year-on-year jump to 61.8 billion yen due to securities trading gains and falls in overall evaluation losses on its securities holdings....

Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie kicked off a five-day Japanese visit Friday by meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama . Liang hopes to build defense cooperation between the two countries during discussions with Japanese officials, Xinhua, the official Chinese government...

The husband of pop idol-turned actress Noriko Sakai was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, Friday for possessing and using illegal stimulant drugs. Yuichi Takaso, 41, a self-styled professional surfer, admitted to the charges during the...

Representatives from Japanese municipalities holding a large number of foreign residents called for the central government Thursday to set up a new agency aimed at improving the livelihoods of foreign people living in the country.     The proposal by...

November 26, 2009 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, it seems, can do no wrong. For weeks, he has been waffling over the issue of where to relocate the US Futenma air base, insisting he needs time to ponder the deal...

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama 's mother may have surreptitiously given him millions of yen for his political campaigns, sources say. Investigators are having difficulty untangling Hatoyama's contributions from his mother's, The Asahi Shimbun reported.