Japan will mark 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima amid worries over nuclear war following U.S.-Israeli military ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will likely talk "over the next number of days" after the U.S. imposed a 35% tariff on goods not covered by ...

BANGKOK -- Thailand's revered and tradition-bound community of saffron-robed Buddhist monks, long regarded as the moral ...

TOKYO -- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group will launch a fund to purchase shares of unlisted startups in an effort to develop the ...

DALIAN, China -- Live-in postpartum helpers are increasingly popular in China despite their high prices as its culture ...

NAGO, Japan -- Junglia Okinawa opened in Japan's southernmost prefecture on July 25, and I had the privilege of visiting the ...

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Hagiuda, also a former LDP policy chief, was known as a confidant of Abe, who once led the party's largest faction that was influential in selecting prime ministers. Abe, Japan's longest-serving ...

TOKYO -- Japan's IT industry experienced the steepest decline in labor productivity among the Group of Seven leading industrialized economies between 2019 and 2023, as the sector's growing workforce ...

Hagiuda, also a former LDP policy chief, was known as a confidant of Abe, who once led the party's largest faction that was influential in selecting prime ministers. Abe, Japan's longest-serving ...

SINGAPORE -- With a bar scene that regularly ranks among the world's best, Singapore has earned its reputation as the cocktail capital of Asia. In 2024, it stood shoulder to shoulder with London and ...

TOKYO -- At a nearly 40-year low versus the dollar, the yen and its sharp weakening are exercising the minds of Japanese government officials and central bankers racing to come up with an urgent ...