Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Sunday that one of two Japanese nationals detained in Iran has been released ...

Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said the nation isn’t considering unilateral negotiations with Iran to secure ...

Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away from anything but very careful public comments about Japan's 1941 sneak ...

Japan sources 90 percent of its crude from Middle East and is heavily dependent on exports transiting the key waterway.

A U.S. commander said allied attacks had degraded Tehran’s military. On Saturday, the United States and Britain said Iran had ...

Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Sunday that one of two Japanese nationals detained in Iran has been released and will be returning to Japan. Motegi, speaking on a Fuji Television talk ...

A charged historical comparison draws backlash, highlights deeper confusion around the administration’s war message ...

Foreign Minister Motegi also announced the release and return of one of the two Japanese nationals previously detained in Iran Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Sunday hinted at the ...

Japan’s Foreign Ministry says a Japanese national detained in Iran last year has been released. Copyright © 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This ...

The base, Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands, is 2,500 miles from Tehran and far from the Middle East, where Iran has been attacking Israel and Persian Gulf countries with drones and missiles in ...