Fostering Tunisian-Japanese cooperation was the focus of a meeting held Friday between Prime Minister Sarra Zaafrani Zanzari and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Yokohama, on the sidelines of the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9).

President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Tokyo on Saturday for summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as he seeks to expand cooperation with Tokyo while squarely facing up to the history of the past.

By naming the popular lawmaker to his Cabinet, the beleaguered prime minister turned a potential rival into a member of his team — at least, for now.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s use of the word “remorse” in his speech marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II was notable for two key reasons.

Japan's ruling party plans to gauge the support of its members in writing on whether it should hold an earlier than scheduled leaders

TOKYO: Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's use of the word "remorse" in his address about World War II at the annual government-organised national memorial service for the war dead reflected his distinctiveness.

More than half of voters do not think Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba should resign despite his party’s resounding defeat in the Upper House election in July, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.

For the first time in over a decade, the Japanese prime minister used the term “remorse” while speaking of the country’s wars of aggression