Tokyo scrambled fighter jets after Russian bombers flew over international waters around the nation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said yesterday. “We confirmed that Russian military ...

Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters. "It is difficult to say clearly what the purpose of the flight was... but the Russian military has been active on an ongoing basis in areas surrounding Japan," he ...

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women would be called off, and financial contributions ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a press conference Friday that the Imperial couple's visit is being arranged. He added that Japan has been developing cooperative relations with ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said at a news conference that as of 7 a.m., reports had been received of three people unaccounted for and one person slightly injured. The body of one of ...

Kishida and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi were among 300 or so Diet members who gathered to listen to the Ukrainian president’s explanation of the crisis his country is facing.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters Friday it was “extremely regrettable” the two alleged sexual assaults occurred within months. Japan “takes it seriously” and Vice ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said, “We are not considering it at the moment,” but what is currently needed is a process of finding consensus on this fundamental and profound ...

“We lodged representations to the United States that the comment was not based on the correct understanding of Japan’s policy and regrettable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told ...

The Kishida faction is currently chaired by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi. Hayashi, 63, is younger than Kamikawa, but he is considered “senior” to her within the party. There are ...