TOKYO -- Japan's announcement Tuesday that it would immediately start pulling its ground troops from Iraq brought to a close a mission that symbolized the country's push to take a more assertive role ...

TOKYO - Two Japanese hostages freed in Iraq returned home today and Tokyo insisted it would not follow Spain's example and withdraw its troops from Iraq. "The fact that Spain made that decision and ...

TOKYO — Japanese lawmakers today approved a two-year extension of the country's air force transport mission in Iraq, despite criticism of Tokyo's involvement in the increasingly unpopular war. The ...

The old American saying “politics stops at the water’s edge” has no equivalent in Japan, largely because until recently, the water was where everything stopped for a country whose foreign policy was ...

Keisuke Honda's penalty sank Iraq in a 1-0 victory as Japan moved to the brink of qualification from Asian Cup Group D on Friday. O Omnisports Pulse Follow Japan took firm control of Asian Cup Group D ...

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wants to send Japanese troops to Iraq to aid reconstruction, assist U.S. peacekeepers and destroy any weapons of mass destruction, a spokesman said Wednesday. The ...

TOKYO, Dec. 9 -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet approved a contentious plan Tuesday to dispatch nearly 1,000 troops along with transport planes and armored vehicles to aid in the ...

TOKYO, Oct. 27 -- The Japanese government scrambled Wednesday to win the release of a 24-year-old Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq, dispatching senior diplomats to the Middle East and appealing for ...

OKYO (AP) -- The kidnapping of three Japanese civilians in Iraq posed the greatest challenge yet to Japan's first foray to a combat zone since World War II. Television footage released Thursday of ...

KUWAIT CITY -- A contingent of Japanese troops crossed Sunday into Iraq from Kuwait as part of the country's first deployment to a combat zone since 1945. The troops, most of them engineers, are part ...

Japan's Shinji Kagawa is wary of Brisbane's humidity ahead of his team's Asian Cup clash with Iraq after their World Cup struggles. O Omnisports Pulse Follow Japan will face a familiar foe in their ...

Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in ...