Japan sank into a trade deficit of 2.2 trillion yen ($15 billion) for the first six month of this year, according to ...

SEOUL--South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving police and ...

Police in Saitama Prefecture uncovered tens of millions of yen in cash while searching the home of Shoko Asahara's widow and ...

Nippon Steel Corp.’s acquisition of U. S. Steel required nerves of steel, which Eiji Hashimoto, the company’s chairman and ...

WASHINGTON--American companies in China are reporting record-low new investment plans for this year and declining confidence ...

Satellite imagery indicates that a new maritime pier has been completed at North Korea’s key rocket station, where the latest ...

The Asahi Shimbun has established new election coverage guidelines and set up a section for fact checking, including ...

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to have 1 billion “AI (artificial intelligence) agents” working in place of humans by the end of ...

KAGOSHIMA--Sixteen evacuated residents of Akusekijima island boarded a ferry here on the evening of July 16 to return home ...

A new U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ) team is seeking a closer working relationship with the Self-Defense Forces in peacetime to ...

The likelihood of a new country joining the British, Italian and Japanese project to develop a fighter jet is diminishing, said a BAE Systems executive, amid long-held speculation Saudi Arabia could ...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party ruling coalition may lose its majority in the upper house in an election on Sunday, which ...