Foreign aid and development assistance are contentious subjects for some, since loans on offer sometimes impoverish countries rather than support economic development and improvements in standards of ...

In “The Islands and the Stars,” Subodhana Wijeyeratne charts how Tokyo’s space program has changed over the past century.

At its recently concluded Gamestock event, Microsoft officially introduced its Japanese development studios working on Xbox games. Xbox Japan is led by Toshiyuki Miyata and currently has 12 projects ...

Japan was ASEAN’s largest provider of financial and technical resources until the 2000s. Japan’s overseas development aid (ODA) through loans and grants to ASEAN member states goes back to 1969, two ...

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 ...

Japan is reportedly mulling plans that would revive its ambitions of developing its own commercial aircraft programme, a year after the previous home-grown effort, the Mitsubishi SpaceJet, was ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Ann Arbor-based drug maker Esperion Therapeutics Inc. has ...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry responded intensively to inquiries concerning Japan's Lower House election results on Monday, ...

JICA President Dr. Akihiko Tanaka at the "Post-2015 Global Development Framework" IMF/World Bank annual meeting in Tokyo on October 12, 2012. (World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr) The Japanese ...