Japan's government has revealed that on March 14 it officially selected multiple experts to consider a new name for the era of the nation's next emperor. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga's announcement on Sunday suggests that the selection process is now in the final stage.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai Friday urged Japan and its fellow Group of 20 nations to pledge new funding for educating girls at June's G20 summit, hosted by the Japanese.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told an international women's conference in Tokyo on Saturday that Japan will support developing countries in providing "high-quality" education to 4 million women by 2020.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may meet President Donald Trump in the United States in late April for talks on North Korea and Japan-U.S. trade, two government officials and Japanese media said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed his commitment Sunday to pursuing an amendment of Japan's U.S.-drafted pacifist Constitution, one of his key policy goals and a decades-old pledge of his ruling party.
NHK has learned that the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee will likely have to retire without serving another term as French authorities are investigating him in connection with allegations of corruption.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested Thursday he has no intention of serving another four-year term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party when his third term expires in September 2021.
Japan's Emperor Akihito has begun a series of rituals leading to his abdication on April 30. The first ceremonies were held at the three Imperial sanctuaries on the palace grounds in Tokyo on Tuesday.
The public support rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet has fallen slightly to 43.3 percent, while some 69 percent want a local referendum that rejected a plan to relocate a U.S. base within Okinawa Prefecture to be respected, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.
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