Like her predecessors, Takaichi has offered a summit to resolve the abductees issue. North Korea is unlikely to be interested ...

Japan's ruling party is considering scrapping its non-nuclear principles as tensions with China and North Korea escalate, ...

Megumi Yokota went missing at age 13 on Nov 15, 1977. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korea has proposed military talks with North Korea after repeated incursions across the military demarcation line, ...

Saturday marked 48 years since the disappearance of Megumi Yokota, a symbolic victim of North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals decades ago, and her mother Sakie continues to lament the lengthy ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Ayodhya to attend the grand flag-hoisting ceremony atop the Ram Temple today. Paul ...

Congratulations on your appointment as Japan’s prime minister. We warmly welcome the historic milestone of the first woman to ...

South Korea's government has announced that it has finalised an agreement to build nuclear-powered submarines in partnership with the United States. The US has approved the "attack submarines" and ...

Progress on the abduction issue has stalled since the early 2000s, when some abductees returned to Japan under then-Prime ...

With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi tells Indonesia that the security environment has become "increasingly severe".

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Friday (Nov 14) she was ready to come "face-to-face" with North Korean ...