Fumio Kishida

President Joe Biden held a summit with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, is reportedly ready to normalize relations with Israel as a condition of OECD membership.

President Joe Biden insisted on Wednesday that his support for Israel in the aftermath of the unprecedented terrorist assault on October 7 was “ironclad” and his administration would do “all [it] can to protect Israel’s security.”

The White House hosted a state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday evening, which included an array of big names.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio pledged closer cooperation with the United States on artificial intelligence research.

Taiwan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years during rush hour on Wednesday, with nine dead, 50 missing, and over 800 injuries reported.

The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Tuesday relaxed Japan’s export controls on defense equipment.

Kim Yo-jong, the politically influential sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, said on Thursday that her brother might be willing to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, who wishes to discuss the fate of Japanese civilians kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, provided Kishida is “respectful.”

The Gunma Prefecture of Japan last week removed a memorial to Korean victims of Imperial Japan’s forced labor policy during World War II.

Japan reported that the government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is seeking to establish contact with former President Donald Trump.

A 90-year-old woman was rescued Saturday after being trapped underneath rubble left behind by the recent earthquake in Japan.

The mayor of Suzu, Japan, said “90 percent of houses” in the small peninsula town were either “completely or nearly completely destroyed.”

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum on Thursday for a frigid exchange in which Beijing claimed they agreed to pursue “constructive and stable” ties.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night to invite North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un to meet “face to face” without preconditions.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio dined on Fukushima seafood to show the fish are safe after the release of treated wastewater.

Japan’s defence ministry on Thursday announced it will seek a record $53 billion budget for the next fiscal year on the back of regional tensions driven by an increasingly assertive China and unpredictable North Korea.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio urged the Communist Party of China to protect Japanese citizens in the country from a wave of abuse against them as a result of Tokyo approving a plan to dump wastewater into the ocean from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.

The trilateral summit between the United States, South Korea, and Japan at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday produced several joint statements reaffirming the commitment of the three free nations to stand for Taiwan’s freedom, denuclearize North Korea, keep the Indo-Pacific free, and support human rights.

John Kirby, the White House National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications, told the Japanese outlet Kyodo News on Thursday that President Joe Biden is open to holding an in-person meeting with communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un “without preconditions.”

Chinese officials on Thursday seethed over the trilateral U.S.-South Korea-Japan summit scheduled to be held at Camp David on Friday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Japan on Monday with a somewhat enigmatic agenda that reportedly includes a meeting with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.

Fears among Japanese fishermen that the planned release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear reactor could ruin their industry grew over the weekend as Chinese consumers announced they will boycott Japanese seafood, while South Korea said it will be banned outright.

Japan’s Nagoya District Court ruled Tuesday that failing to recognize same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, even though the Japanese Constitution currently stipulates that marriage requires a man and a woman.

Multiple Japanese media outlets reported on Thursday that conservative Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is making arrangements to attend the scheduled NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received an enthusiastic welcome in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, including his PNG counterpart touching his feet in a traditional Indian gesture of respect to elders.

President Biden stumbled down steps while meeting G-7 leaders during his foreign trip on Friday as voters continue to hold looming concerns about his age.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that even though a planned meeting of the Quad alliance was canceled because President Joe Biden pulled out at the last minute, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fellow Quad member India will still visit Australia next week and hold all of his scheduled events, as well as a bilateral meeting with Albanese.

The White House on Tuesday canceled President Joe Biden’s planned trips to Papua New Guinea and Australia, which were to have taken place next week on his way home from the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

Observers and conservative voices in Japan are increasingly uncomfortable with President Joe Biden’s ambassador to the country, Rahm Emanuel, inserting himself in domestic politics, particularly pressuring Japan’s legislature to pass a law against LGBT discrimination.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met in Seoul over the weekend for their second summit in two months.

The Wall Street Journal, citing a Japanese government source, claimed on Sunday that Japan is now buying Russian oil above the $60 per barrel cap imposed by the Group of Seven (G7) nations and Australia in December to keep Moscow from using massive oil profits to finance its invasion of Ukraine.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio made a surprise visit to Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia flew two nuclear-capable strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan on Tuesday in an apparent gesture of disapproval.

China’s regime-controlled news outlet condemned conservative Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Monday for daring to visit India while China’s dictator Xi Jinping began a trip to Russia, accusing Kishida of pursuing ambitions “too big for his boots” and lamenting that Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were siphoning media attempt away from Moscow.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed his Japanese counterpart, Kishida Fumio, to New Delhi on Monday to discuss economic and security cooperation, timing the diplomatic event simultaneously with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia.

The state-backed British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has defended a one-sided article attacking Japan for refusing to embrace mass migration.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said on Monday that he will invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to participate in the Group of Seven (G-7) online summit, which begins on Friday.