East Asia

Myanmar's ruling military will likely hold a huge parade in the capital, Naypyidaw, on Monday to mark Armed Forces Day....

Japanese officials started accepting new passport applications online in 16 prefectures on Monday....

Japan recognized 202 people as refugees last year. The figure more than doubled from a year ago to a record high for two years in a row....

The number of foreign nationals in Japan exceeded 3 million as of the end of last year for the first time on record....

Japan's health ministry reported 893 new cases of the coronavirus in Tokyo on Friday. The figure is up 262 from a week earlier....

Japan's top court has found a Vietnamese woman not guilty of abandoning the bodies of her stillborn twins. The case has brought to light the issue of foreign trainees who give birth in isolation for fear of being sent back to their countries....

Japanese police have searched the home of the parents of former lawmaker GaaSyy, who faces arrest for intimidating celebrities and others on YouTube....

Japan's industry ministry says it will for the first time reduce the rate of renewable energy surcharges levied on electricity bills....

Farmers on the southwestern Japanese island of Tanegashima have started to pick this year's crop of new tea leaves....

South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol has vowed to further solidify the country's three-way security cooperation with Japan and the United States in the face of North Korea's repeated military provocations....

The Japanese government has released guidelines on refugee recognition for the first time. They say that refugee status may be granted to applicants who could face persecution at home for their sexual orientation....

Several hundred thousand people have marched in Paris to protest pension system reforms by the administration of President Emmanuel Macron....

The Hiroshima High Court in western Japan is set to rule on Friday whether a nuclear reactor at Ikata plant should be allowed to resume operations....

Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi have claimed gold in the pairs figure skating at the World Championships in Japan....

A new terminal building has opened at Kumamoto Airport on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu....

Saudi Arabia says it is in talks with Syria to resume consular services. Diplomatic ties between the two countries were cut off more than ten years ago, due to the Syrian civil war....

Japan's central prefecture of Nagano invited ambassadors to the country to a regional tour on Thursday ahead of a Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting in the prefecture....

NHK has learned that Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio used a private business jet instead of a government plane to fly to Poland on his way to Ukraine....

A South Korean expert says the ballistic missile that North Korea fired on Sunday was likely launched from an underground facility, not a mobile launch pad....

The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation says it has reached a deal to sell deposits and loans from failed Signature Bank....

In the World Baseball Classic, the United States has advanced to the final in a crushing defeat of Cuba....

US President Joe Biden has called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to obtain public support before pursuing judicial reforms....

Japan's top government spokesperson says the country will keep a close watch on Russian and Chinese moves on the Ukrainian situation....

People in Tokyo are remembering the victims of the deadly sarin gas attack on the city's subway system nearly three decades ago....

Several policymakers at a Bank of Japan meeting earlier this month called for continuing current monetary-easing measures to achieve the 2-percent inflation target....

Six major central banks have announced a coordinated move to inject more dollars into the global financial system....

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have each written articles for publication in the other's country ahead of Xi's visit to Russia. Both articles sound a hopeful note for a solution to the Ukraine situation....

Visitors to Japan are increasingly benefiting from technological innovations that are breaking down the language barrier and making it easier to get around....

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio arrived in India on Monday morning for talks with his counterpart Narendra Modi....

North Korea says it test-fired a ballistic missile fitted with a mock nuclear warhead on Sunday morning as part of a drill simulating a tactical nuclear counterattack....

A trolley train is offering passengers a leisurely ride and majestic views of the mountains of Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan....

A senior Iranian government official says President Ebrahim Raisi has been invited to Saudi Arabia by King Salman bin Abdulaziz....

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, drawing protests from Ukraine's government....

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the southern Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which Russia unilaterally annexed nine years ago....

A group of researchers says an experiment it conducted on mice has demonstrated that Alzheimer's medications can be efficiently delivered to the brain when encapsulated in tiny particles....

Former US President Donald Trump has said in a social media post that he will be arrested on Tuesday. He did not provide further details....

Labor unions and workers in France are showing fierce opposition to President Emmanuel Macron, who has pushed through a pension reform bill without a parliamentary vote. The president does not have a majority in parliament....

Some members of the UN Security Council say they are gravely concerned about the human rights situation in North Korea. They say the North is sacrificing the well-being of its own people in favor of its ballistic missile program....

US President Joe Biden saw two American banks collapse over the past week and another that was forced to accept a bailout. Now, he is calling on executives at failed financial institutions to be held accountable....

Japan's squad for the World Baseball Classic arrived in Miami, Florida for the semifinals and some players wasted no time to start working out, despite the jet lag from the 13-hour flight....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will ask parliament to ratify Finland's NATO membership, while putting Sweden's bid on hold for the time being....

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of committing war crimes in Ukraine....

South Korea's defense ministry has reportedly initiated the process to normalize a military information-sharing accord with Japan, in line with an agreement reached by the two countries' leaders on Thursday....

Business leaders from Japan and South Korea held talks in Tokyo on Friday and finalized a deal to establish foundations that would tackle issues of common concern, including energy security and decarbonization....

Japan's health ministry confirmed 631 new cases of coronavirus in Tokyo on Friday....

The Japanese government has unveiled a new goal of attracting 400,000 students annually from overseas....

China's Foreign Ministry says President Xi Jinping will make a three-day official visit to Russia from Monday at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin....

The leader of South Korea's main opposition party has slammed the summit between President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio as...

Microsoft has unveiled new artificial intelligence capabilities for its most popular software products that it says will supercharge workplace productivity....

Japan's Defense Ministry said the country's Air Self-Defense Force and the US Air Force conducted a joint exercise on Friday....