Junichiro Koizumi talked with reporters abo… Aboard Air Force One, as he returned from his trip to Asia, the president spoke with reporters on what was accomplished ...

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Friday reiterated the need for a summit with North Korea, with the support of the ...

A U.S. State Department spokesperson called on North Korea Tuesday to offer a "full" account of Japanese citizens abducted by ...

If you haven’t heard of Junichiro Koizumi, that’s OK – he was Prime Minister of Japan in 2006 and a huge Elvis fan. He visited Graceland that year with former President George W. Bush ...

HAS A SUMMIT HAPPENED BEFORE? In a historic first, then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi travelled to Pyongyang to meet his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Il in 2002. Although North ...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had rejected any possibility that Tokyo would withdraw its 550-troop contingent from Iraq where they have been conducting humanitarian missions.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gave a New Year’s press conferen… Lisa Curtis talked about Japanese Prime Minister’s trip to the U.S. and the security alliance between the two ...

A total of 90 percent of respondents in a recent Kyodo News poll said they would support the idea of a reigning empress as ...

Biden hosted an official state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida(Getty Images) In 2002, Kim Jong Il, the ...

Kishida’s previous calls for talks have been rejected by Pyongyang.In 2002, Kim Jong Il, the father of Kim Jong Un, told then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that its agents had kidnapped 13 ...

In a historic first, then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi travelled to Pyongyang to meet his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Il in 2002. Although North Korea denied any involvement in ...