Shigeru Ishiba speaks before a runoff election at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo, Japan, ...

Red spider lilies are in full bloom and delighting visitors of Butsuryu-ji temple in the city of Uda, Nara Prefecture. The ...

Iwao Hakamada, believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted in a murder retrial in Japan ...

Shigeru Ishiba, who will be Japan's next prime minister after winning his party's leadership vote on Friday, is a seasoned lawmaker known for his in-depth security policy knowledge.

A  former defence minister who has backed the formation of an “Asian Nato” is set to become the next prime minister of Japan ...

A temple in South Korea that claimed ownership of a Buddha statue stolen from Japan will not oppose returning it, a source ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

Japan ’s former defence minister, Shigeru Ishiba, has won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential election ...

Japan has sent a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait for the first time, Japanese media reported, amid increasing military ...

Hakamada’s older sister, Hideko, has spent years campaigning to overturn her brother’s conviction (Picture: The Asahi Shimbun ...

Shigeru Ishiba, 67, is a senior member of Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and an intellectual heavyweight ...

Years before Monster Hunter World, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto says a PSP game was the series' true turning point.