Then-Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi inspects an apple orchard in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, part of a JICA Partnership Program, Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan At the ...

NEDO, Japan’s state-run energy and industrial technology development agency, has selected 24 themes under its new “Technology Development Project for Expanding Solar Power Adoption,” including 20 for ...

In July 2024, the Cabinet Office formed the AI Institutional Study Group with a mandate to determine, in consultation with various stakeholders, the next steps for AI regulation in Japan. On February ...

Japan has a long history of launching orbital rockets, dating back about half a century. During much of this time, its launch industry has focused largely on orbiting national payloads, such as ...

Japan is expanding its Africa strategy, linking development aid, trade and security to ...

The first Japan-Central Asia summit reflects Tokyo’s new foreign policy activism and the latest move in Central Asia’s hedging strategy, which seeks to leverage a growing interest of major powers in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2021. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday instructed ...

The multi-year pact with The Seven, a subsidiary of TBS Holdings best known for producing Netflix's 'Alice in Borderland,' marks Disney's first long-term content development collaboration with a ...

The Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile, pictured above launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, is jointly developed by the US and Japan. The MDA said the GPI joint development ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday instructed his government to consider developing safer, smaller nuclear reactors, signaling a renewed emphasis on nuclear energy years ...