An aspirational generation of Chinese arrivals are beginning to shape Japan’s demographic, social and perhaps even political destiny ...

Kishida visit shows Japan's policy vis-a-vis the Middle East is shifting from the traditional energy-securing economic diplomacy to a more strategic foreign policy.

Both have fundamentally constrained Japan’s freedom of action in international security and limited Japan’s foreign policy options to those of a middle power.

Palestine's representative to Japan on Tuesday called for Tokyo to join the growing number of countries recognizing ...

Japan and the Middle East have maintained robust economic ties for decades, shaped largely by energy interdependence, trade, and investment dynamics. Japan’s industrialized economy is highly ...

Japan spent the 19th and 20th centuries coming to terms with the West. Now Japan must spend the 21st century adapting itself to Asia. It was quintessentially Japanese that its academics in recent ...

Japan, the world’s fourth-largest oil buyer, imports 95% of its crude from the Middle East, a concentration that has grown sharply in recent decades and is unique among major oil importers.

After oil crises in the 1970s, Japan aimed to become less dependent on fossil fuels and the Middle East. However, 40 years on there has been little progress.

Japan is reliant on the Middle East for almost 90% of oil imports, most of which are transported in tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

Japan will ask oil producing countries in the Middle East to ramp up production in the face of surging prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said March 13.