Japanese authorities are in damage control mode, after misinformation about a cultural exchange program sparked an ...

A cultural exchange programme linking four Japanese cities with African nations was meant to foster goodwill but instead ...

While Africa has made great gains since the turn of the century, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) – the key platform to drive Japan’s development initiatives ...

Japan has one combined distinctive goal on the African agenda - investment, trade, and development. This was indicated explicitly in most of the speeches ...

Tokyo, - Japan and African nations have entered into a historic wave of cooperation after signing 300 agreements during the ...

A geopolitical contest is unfolding in central-southern Africa, where major global powers are vying for control of key logistical routes amid a global race to secure critical minerals for the green ...

Africa’s task is not to retreat from the world, but to engage it from a position of strength. That strength will only come if ...

From Kenya’s ‘pregnancy-for-glow’ trend to Japan’s demographic crisis, could Africa’s wombs ...

The East Asian nation is positioning itself as a reliable partner at a time when the US and UK governments have made huge cuts to foreign aid.

Naoki Ando, senior vice-president of Japan International Cooperation Agency, the implementing agency of Japan’s aid policy, says that the country will stick by its model of development assistance over ...

Here, Japan has significantly fallen behind the pack. Whereas previously Japan was the largest Asian economic partner in Africa, by 2000 China had taken over the lead.

Japan's new strategy has borrowed from China's, and in many ways Abe's January tour mirrored Xi's last year. In Ivory Coast, the recovering economic and political powerhouse of francophone Africa ...