The chair then congratulated Kishi and accidentally called him by his father’s name: “Nobuo Kishi wins the Lower House seat!” The slip of the tongue symbolized an issue that both helped and ...

Chinese and Russian bombers jointly flew for an extended distance near Japanese waters on May 24, when the Quad summit was being held in Tokyo, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said the ...

Nobuchiyo Kishi, 31, the son of Nobuo Kishi, a former defense minister whose resignation for health reasons prompted the by-election, is ahead of Hideo Hiraoka, 69, a justice minister under the ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi issued an order to go, based on the Self-Defense Forces Law, according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, who revealed the development during a news conference ...

Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi was also in Hanoi on Saturday, where he signed a deal allowing Japan to give Vietnam defense equipment and technology. Japan and Vietnam are stepping up ...

But on Feb. 3, Yaita met with Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi in Tokyo and submitted a request regarding Mageshima that all but admitted defeat. It called for creating a forum between the municipal ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said at a news conference on Jan. 8 that the central government has tolerated the low-altitude flight training, even though the area is not designated for U.S. forces ...

Reuters contacted 15 leading Japanese defense manufacturers, whose CEOs the defense ministry invited to talks with then-defense minister Nobuo Kishi in April, and in January with his successor ...

Beyond Taiwan, five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan’s main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said.

An 18-year-old high school student was arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing to death a woman on a southwestern Japan island last year, police said. The suspect is accused of fatally stabbing ...

Rescue personnel continued efforts to clear debris in an expanding sinkhole near Tokyo on Friday in the hope of saving a man trapped as the crucial 72-hour threshold of survival passed. Preparations ...

Japan's real wages fell 0.3 percent in November from a year earlier, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline, as pay growth failed to keep pace with rising prices, government data showed ...