Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of ...

President Trump is letting Japan off the hook — for now. After threatening tariff increases on some of America’s biggest trading partners, Mr. Trump, it seems, places a high enough priority on the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is hoping for reassurances Friday that the alliance is still strong. But in this White House, ...

One in every 40 or so foreign visitors to Japan right now is Australian – outside Asian nations, we’re behind only the US in terms of foreign visitor numbers. That’s a huge number of ...