Following the designation of four Japanese municipalities as “partner cities” for four African countries at the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) in August, social ...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced on Thursday that it will cancel the Africa Hometown scheme, after an episode that experts say illustrates the potential ...

Despite repeated government clarifications, the uproar caused by misinformation about Japan’s immigration policy continues to rage, including acts of vandalism and calls to dismantle the nation’s ...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency's withdrawal from its "JICA Africa Hometown" initiative has prompted disappointment in the continent. NHK World's Kobayashi Yu discusses the fallout from ...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency was planning to carry out a project that would promote exchanges with Africa ...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency has scrapped its 'hometown' exchange initiative with Africa weeks after it ...

Mindful of Africa’s economic potential — and particularly its natural resources — Japan has lately joined China in assiduously courting African governments in development partnerships. But a key issue ...

Japan has been promoting, in collaboration with the UN, the TICAD (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) process since 1993 to raise awareness of African development issue in the ...

Japan suspended imports of pork and live pigs from Germany on Friday after a case of African swine fever (ASF) was confirmed in a wild boar in eastern Germany, the agriculture ministry said.

Japan’s migration debate is increasingly turning against foreigners wishing to come to the country [File: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images] Japan’s foreign aid agency has scrapped a cultural ...