Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers ...

Instead, the country is considering sending lawmakers from the ruling bloc to the meeting, officials have said.

Lawmakers from Japan's ruling parties may attend a convention of signatories to a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty in New York ...

The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States have agreed to strengthen the bilateral alliance under the administration ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to skip a convention of signatories to a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty to be ...

Tokyo, Jan. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japan will not participate as an observer in a meeting in the United States in March of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, government and ...

The Japanese government's decision not to observe a key meeting about a treaty banning nuclear weapons has filled the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun making arrangements to forgo participating as an observer at a meeting of signatories to the Treaty ... in the United States in March, it has been learned. As ...

Thirty-three of Japan's 47 prefectural governments back revising a pact governing the US forces in the country, a Kyodo News survey showed ...

Japan and the United States signed the revised security treaty on Jan. 19, 1960, but kept the record of discussion confidential. Takuma Nakashima, a professor of Japanese political and diplomatic ...