Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will host Group of Seven (G7) leaders in Hiroshima on May 19–21, and he is poised to rally the world’s leading democratic economies around maintaining ...

Japan hosts the G7 summit at a time of rising strategic tensions in Asia and worrisome global economic trends, but for many the gathering will be sidelined by a U.S. presidential visit to ...

Barely two months into office, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung faces a pivotal foreign policy test, heading into back-to ...

It is critical that the G7 takes the initiative when the world faces a complex set of crises. Japan is determined to exercise leadership while it holds the G7 Presidency, and co-operation from ...

The G7 chair organizes a set of meetings throughout the year to discuss these issues, inviting ministers and other delegates from the member-states. The main meeting, however, is the leaders ...

We reiterate our principled opposition to the proliferation of nuclear weapons as detrimental to international peace and ...

Japan, the host of this year’s G7 summit and its only Asian member, will position regional security on the summit’s main agenda, said Matsuda at the University of Tokyo.

The G7, which includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United States and Japan, is expected to reaffirm its solidarity in providing financial support for Ukraine and sanctions against ...

Christopher Johnstone, Japan chair at US think-tank CSIS, said Tokyo was still keen to engage with non-G7 countries because Russia’s membership of the G20 had fractured that broader grouping.

Japan wants to push for the Group of Seven (G7) economic powers to agree on accelerating decarbonisation efforts through collaboration at the ministers' meeting on climate, energy and environment ...

Japan also initiated Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) to create a multilateral umbrella for data and digital rules on the sidelines of the 2019 Osaka G20 summit — which China and the United States ...

G7 support for Ukraine in its war with Russia will not be affected by the intensifying Middle East conflict, Japan said on Tuesday as the group's foreign ministers prepared to hold virtual talks ...