NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Richard Samuels, professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about Japan's effort to form a new centralized intelligence agency.

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

When Ameya Desai won the fourth grade prize of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge last year, something surprising happened: A neighbor reached out asking if the 11-year-old journalist would interview his ...

Today, Japan's parliament voted in the country's first female prime minister, hard-line nationalist Sanae Takaichi. As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Tokyo, her selection signals a sharp turn to the ...