Yahoo Japan has beaten Yahoo to the blogosphere. Yahoo Japan, owned mostly by Softbank and partly by Yahoo, on Tuesday launched a test, or "beta," version of Yahoo Japan Blogs, a free service that ...

It will likely come as quite a surprise to the English-speaking world that the number one language of bloggers worldwide, in terms of number of posts, is not the “language of international ...

The ever-useful “Ninki Blog Ranking” lists the most-viewed Japanese blogs in a number of different categories. There are blogs for mothers who wish to help their children study more effectively, blogs ...

Japan is capable of real contributions to the balance of power in East Asia, but it chooses dependence on the United States. Despite having the world’s third-largest economy and territorial disputes ...

The blogging session here at CNET Japan Innovation Conference is moderated by the CNET Japan Blog Editor. First up is Ask Jeeves Japan, which covered their Bloglines powered Ask Blog Search for Japan, ...

Eighty years ago, the Empire of Japan had one of the world’s most powerful navies, and its armies began a massive campaign against much of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Its territory ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba leaves after speaking to the media at the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) headquarters Takashi Aoyama/Pool via REUTERS On Sunday, Japanese voters handed the ...

A time of unpredictability has fallen upon Japan, prompting the search for a new leader. Due to internal disputes within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), each prime ministerial succession in Tokyo ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This a joint post by Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign ...

An aerial view of Oshima-Mura, Japan, after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the area in March 2011. (MCT) TOKYO — In a nondescript government building near the Imperial Palace ...