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Iran is facing "many great problems" with securing medical equipment and food supplies due to "tightening US sanctions", President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday. Speaking to Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo...

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the International Organisation for Migration with support from the Government of Japan have launched a debris-recycling project in the Iraqi governorate of...

Japanese SoftBank Group yesterday said it was expecting its tech-focused fund, dubbed "Vision Fund", to suffer around $16.5 billion in losses in the last financial year, which ended in...

Leaders of the G20 countries have committed to injecting more than $5 trillion into the global economy to minimise the social and economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic. The...

An eleven-year-old Syrian girl will compete in the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo after winning the West Asia Olympic Table Tennis Qualification Tournament in Jordan last week. Hend...

In security camera footage, a Japanese woman can be seen holding a phone up, as if filming, as the Palestinian woman shouts “corona, corona”.

Japan's Deputy Justice Minister Hiroyuki Yoshiie met yesterday with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Lebanese Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najem to discuss the return of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn...

Japan wants to cater to all faiths so tourists and athletes alike have a place to worship

A Japanese destroyer left for the Gulf of Oman on Sunday amid simmering Middle East tension to guard sea lanes that supply nearly all the oil that powers the...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japan's prime minister about the conditions former Nissan-Renault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held under, Reuters reports....

Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates should work together to de-escalate the tense situation in the Gulf, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Monday, relaying comments...

Amid simmering tensions between the US and Iran, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be flying to the Middle East tomorrow on a five-day tour to "help stabilise the...

Lebanese prosecutors imposed a travel ban on former Nissan's chief Carlos Ghosn, the Lebanese National Agency reported, Anadolu Agency reports. "Based on the INTERPOL red-flag warrant, the Lebanese prosecution decided to...

A manager at Turkish jet operator MNG Jet has told authorities that he assisted unwittingly in the escape of ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn from Japan because he had been...

Two Lebanese lawyers yesterday submitted a report to the country's Public Prosecutor's Office against Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn who they say has violated the law by visiting Israel....

The Turkish authorities arrested seven people in Istanbul, Thursday, on suspicion of helping the former Nissan manager, Carlos Ghosn, to escape from Japan to Lebanon. According to the official...

Lebanon received an Interpol arrest warrant on Thursday for former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, while Turkey launched an investigation into his daring escape from Japan via Istanbul, Reuters reports. Ghosn has...

Once considered a hero in Japan for turning around global car giant Nissan, businessman Carlos Ghosn has fled to Lebanon escaping what he called 'injustice and political persecution'

Japan will send a warship and patrol planes to protect Japanese ships in the Middle East as the situation in the region, from which it sources nearly 90% of...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday welcomed Japan's decision not to join a US-led naval mission in the Gulf and said he had discussions on ways of "breaking" US...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday briefed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tokyo's plan to send naval forces to the Middle East to protect Japanese vessels, a Japanese...

Oil market analysts must make sense of a bewildering array of statistics about production, consumption and inventories, compiled and published with varying definitions and degrees of accuracy and timeliness....

Japan is working on a plan to send about 270 seamen to the Middle East to guard ships supplying Japan under a law that allows military deployments for research...

“I would like to continue working with President Abbas to further advance Japan’s unique initiatives,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reiterated his country's commitment to the two-state solution during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abe stated that his country's support...

Since the attack on a Japanese-owned oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz in June, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been under pressure to send a military force to...

Japan will not join the United States in a security mission to protect merchant vessels passing through key Middle Eastern waterways and will instead consider deploying its military independently,...

Japan will not send warships to join a US-led maritime force to guard oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz fearing a military response from Iran, but it may...

Kuwaiti athletes will compete at next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympics under their country's flag after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday lifted its suspension of the nations after...

US President Donald Trump last week defended his relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, calling him a "friend of mine" who was doing a "spectacular job". At...

The United Arab Emirates, UAE authorities have prevented Jordanian lawmaker, Dr Huda al- Atoum, from staying in their territories and asked her to leave Abu Dhabi Airport immediately. Sources...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praised Saudi Arabia's efforts to reduce its dependence on oil and promised Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman that Japan will help the kingdom with...