Iran’s Navy will send military vessels to the coasts of Japan and Italy in the near future for friendly visits, a top commander said.

Japan will continue loading crude cargoes from Iran after it extended a state-backed insurance to cover imports of oil.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Thursday to take a “step-by-step” approach in resolving a territorial dispute with Russia left over from World War II. Abe told a rally of former residents of four islands seized by Russia in the war’s final days and their supporters Thursday that settling the conflict over what Japan calls […]

 Iran national football team forward Sardar Azmoun says the match against China is finished and from now on they just focus on Japan contest. Team Melli defeated China 3-0 Thursday night to secure a place at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup semi-finals. The 24-year-old striker set up Mehdi Taremi for Iran’s opener and then scored […]

Fuji Oil has loaded Iranian crude oil, the first cargo being lifted by the Japanese refiner since the country won a 180-day waiver from the US to import oil from Iran, a report said. The resumption of oil imports comes after Tokyo was granted a waiver from US sanctions that went into effect in November, […]

Japanese Prime Minister, who is en route to Moscow for summit talks with Russian President, is leaning toward accepting a postwar peace treaty between the two countries if two of the Russian-controlled four islands claimed by Japan are handed over, Japanese government sources said. Shinzo Abe, hoping to reach a broad agreement on the peace […]

Japan’s Foreign Ministry declared a note of protest to Russia over detention of two Japanese fishing boats by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) near the Kuril Islands, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday. A representative of the Japanese Foreign Ministry said the actions of the Russian side are “unacceptable.” According to Kyodo, Russian border guards […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would seek maximum progress while discussing the issue of sovereignty over the Southern Kuril Islands with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I will visit Russia this month to hold negotiations. However, you always have negotiation partners, so I cannot make any forecasts about the outcome. But my hope is […]

 Iran’s Trade and Promotion Organization (TPO) plans to dispatch a trade and marketing delegation to Japan in early March. The delegates active in the agriculture and food sectors are to visit the 44th International Exhibition of Food and Beverages (Foodex 2019) which is planned to be held at Makuhari Messe in Japan during March 5-8, […]

The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter China. The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill […]