TEHRAN, Jun 27 - US President Donald Trump is in Japan to meet with world leaders amid a flurry of international crises, tense trade negotiations and a mounting global to-do list.
TEHRAN, Jun 26 -Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Wednesday to seek a consensus on trade and other contentious issues when he chairs this week's summit of the Group of 20 countries in Osaka.
TEHRAN, Jun 24 -Russian bombers violated Japanese airspace, prompting a scramble of scramble of fighter planes to escort them away, Japan's defense ministry said.
TEHRAN, Jun 17 - Japan is protesting what is says was an unauthorized Chinese maritime survey within its economic waters near disputed East China Sea islands.
TEHRAN, Jun 16 - Japanese officials say Tokyo Japan has dismissed a claim by the United States that Iran attacked two oil tankers — both of them carrying “Japanese-related” cargo — in the Sea of Oman.
TEHRAN, Jun 13 - The press secretary of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said his country is not involved in a “shuttle diplomacy or mediation” between Iran and the US.
TEHRAN, Jun 13 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei dismisses US President Donald Trump as a person not worthy of exchanging messages with.
TEHRAN, Jun 13 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country aims to play a role in easing tensions surrounding Iran, as he highlights peace and tranquility in the Middle East are very important for the entire world.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 -Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Saturday that uncertainty over U.S.-China trade friction, if not resolved early enough, could hurt market confidence in the outlook for the global economy.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Japanese authorities have arrested seven Chinese men on suspicion of smuggling what was believed to be a record amount of stimulants by ship-to-ship transfers.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said Japan may be able to make the US administration to understand the current situation, expressing hope that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's planned visit to Iran will help ease regional tensions.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 -Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is no longer pursuing a stated plan of reducing rates of dementia by 10 percent in 10 years, following criticism of a strategy that does not reflect the reality of the degenerative disease.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister has expressed hope that the upcoming visit by Japanese Prime Minister to Tehran would lead to a reduction of tensions in the region.
TEHRAN, Jun 4 - Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp said on Tuesday it expects to book around 1.2 trillion yen ($11.12 billion) in pre-tax profit on the sale of shares in China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
TEHRAN, Jun 3 - A former top Japanese government official has been arrested in his son's killing, police said Monday, though they declined to comment on local media reports saying the retiree told investigators he had feared his reclusive son might harm others.
TEHRAN, May 31 - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold a summit meeting on June 29, when Putin visits Japan for a meeting of leaders of the Group of 20 nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
TEHRAN, May 30 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia was only operating on its own territory after Japan accused Moscow of a military buildup on a chain of islands in the Pacific, RIA news agency reported.
TEHRAN, May 28- The forced sterilization of two women decades ago as teenagers was unconstitutional, a Japanese court said on Tuesday, but rejected their demands for compensation, in the first of about 20 such cases closely watched nationwide, media said.
TEHRAN, May 28-A mass stabbing rampage outside of Japan's capital, Tokyo, has killed a schoolgirl, and the suspected attacker was also dead after turning his knife on himself, according to local media.