In the early 1990s, many in Japan were questioning the very raison d’être of the Japan-US alliance in the post–Cold War era. Yet by the end of the decade, the bilateral security relationship was on as ...

Japanese billionaires could be described as an endangered species. There are fewer of them today than 20 years ago – and their average age is growing. These trends become even more striking when ...

Prime Minister Aso Taro has arrived in Washington in advance of his meeting with President Barack Obama Tuesday. Despite Obama's welcoming Aso as the first foreign leader to meet with him in ...

This is the first story in a new bimonthly series by Patrick Parr on how famous brands got their start in Japan. Parr also wrote the “Japan Yesterday” series that detailed the visits to Japan of ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of China in the 1990s, Japan’s leaders recognized the need for a more independent foreign policy adapted to the realities of the post–Cold War era.

Japan's top court has ruled that a defunct eugenics law, under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996, is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also declared that a ...