Japan is warning that China and Russia have increased military cooperation in a bid to disrupt the current world order in Asia and beyond. Foreign Affairs Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi warned over ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi expressed concern Saturday about Russian and Chinese military cooperation in Asia and said the security situation in Europe could not ...

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told China’s Qin Gang that China should play a responsible international role and called for release of a Japanese citizen detained in China.

Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi attends a meeting of the Quad nations on the sidelines of the 77th U.N. General Assembly in New York City on September 23, 2022. Hayashi accused Russia ...

Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Tatsunori Motoki, a consul based in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, had been subjected to a “coercive interrogation” at the hands of ...

Japan and like-minded countries must be united and maintain sanctions on Russia until it ends its aggression in Ukraine, Japan's foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said on Friday.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said China will be watching how the international community responds to a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. “If something happens on the Ukraine ...

Russia has informed Japan that it will conduct shooting drills in waters north of Shikotan, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday’s approval of the additional sanctions shows Japan’s commitment to efforts by the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations to ...

According to Yoshimasa Hayashi, the chief cabinet secretary to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the Russian plane flew above Rebun Island, which is northwest of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost ...

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi attends a press conference at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's official residence in Tokyo, Japan December 14, 2023.