weapons, as well as drones for surveillance use.... ( Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by

By Kiyoshi Takenaka2 Min ReadTOKYO( Reuters)-Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government on

and to leave a positive impression on Japanese visitors. This was apparent during Kiyoshi Fujita’s

TOKYO( Reuters)-Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, the Komeito party, said on Friday doubling the nation's defence spending abruptly will not win the public's understanding. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Liberal Democratic Party, the larger of the two parties in the ruling bloc, said in a list of proposed policies ahead of the Oct.... 31 lower house election that it aims to raise defence spending, moving towards a target of 2% of gross domestic product. J

TOKYO( Reuters)-Japan's health ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered the suspension of shipments of black rockfish caught off Fukushima prefecture after radiation exceeding an upper limit was detected in a catch late last month. The development comes on the heels of an announcement by Taiwan that it would relax a ban on food imports from Japan put in place after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The suspension means the targetted fish would not be shipped, regardless of the destination, a m

TOKYO( Reuters)-Japan's new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, said on Friday he would do his utmost to lead the country out of the COVID 19-induced national crisis." I'm determined to devote body-and-soul to overcome this national crisis with the people, carve out a new era and pass on to the next generation a country whose citizens are rich at heart," Kishida said in his first policy speech to parliament. Kishida took the top job in the world's third-largest economy on Monday, replacing Yoshihide

TOKYO( Reuters)-Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party( LDP) will hold an election to pick its president on Sept.... 29, party officials said on Thursday, with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga all but certain to face a challenge for the post. Suga took office last September after Shinzo Abe quit citing ill health, and his term expires at the end of next month.... The premier's ratings have fallen below 30% as Japan battles its worst wave of COVID-19 infections, and some in the party want to repl

TOKYO( Reuters)-Japan plans to give other countries 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday, doubling the target from the previous pledge of 30 million doses." Today, I am pleased to announce that, with additional contributions, Japan will provide up to approximately 60 million doses of vaccine in total," Suga said in a pre-recorded video message at the U.S.-hosted Global COVID-19 Summit.Of the first 30 million, Japan has already provided about 23 mi

TOKYO( Reuters)-A 61-year-old man suspected of starting a fire that killed 24 people last week in an Osaka clinic bought 10 litres of gasoline at a petrol station last month, but it was not known whether the fuel was used in the blaze, police said on Monday.... Security camera footage from the psychiatry clinic in Osaka, western Japan, shows the fire broke out on Friday morning after the suspect carried two bags of liquid into the clinic and set the liquid on fire, an Osaka police official said

TOKYO( Reuters)-The Japanese finance minister's post is likely to go to former Olympics minister Shunichi Suzuki in presumptive new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's new cabinet, the Yomiuri daily reported late on Thursday. Incumbent finance minister Taro Aso is set to become the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's( LDP) vice president, the paper said.... Suzuki, 68, is son of former prime minister Zenko Suzuki and brother-in-law of Aso, and has also served as environment minister.... Foreign Minis