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Vietnam's President To Lam and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shake hands during a joint press statement at Akasaka Palace on Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2026
Japan and Vietnam agree to boost economic security and energy ties
Japan and Vietnam seek to strengthen economic and strategic ties amid rising regional geopolitical and trade tensions.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary To Lam meet for talks in Hanoi in May.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2026
Japan and Vietnam consider new pact to prevent crimes
The plan would allow them to mutually provide information on each other’s nationals arrested or detained in their own countries.
Vietnamese President To Lam gives the keynote address during the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2026
Vietnam is Asia’s rising power to watch
According to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 Asia Power Index, Vietnam recorded the second-largest increase in overall influence in the region.
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum during a two day state visit to Hanoi in 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2026
China model gains appeal in Vietnam as police expand power
The two communist neighbors have swung between conflict and cooperation over centuries, with Hanoi now leaning more openly toward Beijing.
Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam takes his oath as Vietnam's President during the legislature's session at the National Assembly in Hanoi on April 7.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2026
Xi to meet Vietnam leader as Hormuz blockade risks energy flows
The war in Iran has raised global supply risks and is pushing Hanoi to deepen cooperation with China, its largest trading partner.
To Lam, the general-secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, takes the oath to become Vietnam's president during a National Assembly session in Hanoi on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
Vietnam’s To Lam plans China visit next week after election as president, sources say
The trip would cement Vietnam’s ties with its much larger neighbor at a time ?when both are worried about energy security and face tariff pressure from the United States.
Vietnam's Communist Party Secretary-General To Lam speaks during the opening session of the National Assembly in Hanoi on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 7, 2026
Vietnam’s ruling-party leader To Lam elected president in structural shift
The widely anticipated move marks a break from Vietnam’s traditional collective leadership system, consolidating authority in one figure.
To Lam takes his oath as Vietnam's president during the National Assembly's summer session in Hanoi in May 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 19, 2026
Vietnam’s To Lam: Secret policeman turned changemaker
In just 17 months as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party he has swept aside rivals and centralized authority.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Vietnam's President and ruling Communist Party Chief To Lam on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United National General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2024
Biden meets with Vietnam leader to counter ties with China and Russia
A senior U.S. official said the two leaders discussed how to accelerate a strategic partnership agreed to last year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vietnam's President To Lam shake hands after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 19, 2024
Xi meets Vietnam’s new leaders and says Hanoi is ‘diplomacy priority’
Vietnam’s new leader To Lam is in Beijing on his first state visit since he took office.
General-Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President To Lam speaks during a news conference at the National Convention Center in Hanoi on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 3, 2024
Vietnam’s Communist Party names To Lam top leader
The Communist Party elected Lam as general secretary in the morning, making him the most powerful figure in Vietnam’s leadership structure.
To Lam takes his oath as Vietnam's president during the National Assembly's summer session in Hanoi on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 22, 2024
Vietnam appoints top policeman as country’s new president
The move is a temporary end to two-months of heightened political turbulence that saw the exit of three of Vietnam’s top five leaders over unspecified wrongdoings.
Vietnamese Public Security Minister To Lam speaks at a meeting at the National Assembly House in Hanoi last December.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 19, 2024
Vietnam Communist Party names police minister as state president
Police minister To Lam has been named as the state president, while a new head of the parliament was also nominated in a major leadership reshuffle.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.

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