East Asia

Children at an elementary school in Japan were in for a big surprise on a recent lunch break....

New data show consumers in Japan spent more lavishly with their credit cards during this year's spring holidays than they did before the coronavirus pandemic....

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to work together to help countries that are facing food and energy problems....

In South Korea, the ruling People Power Party has won 12 of the 17 local elections, giving a boost to the newly inaugurated administration of President Yoon Suk-yeol....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Turkey will conduct a military campaign in neighboring Syria....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday in Washington. They discussed the war in Ukraine and agreed the conflict would last...

US President Joe Biden announced a weapons package for Ukraine on Wednesday that includes advanced rocket systems. The latest round of aid is worth $700 million....

The United States and Taiwan have agreed to launch a new economic partnership....

A panel of major securities dealers and investors has ruled that Russia is in potential default after it failed to meet its bond obligations....

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to supply Ukraine with state-of-the-art antiaircraft missiles....

US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has stressed the necessity for Washington and Tokyo to strengthen ties, saying the bilateral relations are at a...

The Japanese government decided on April 1 to let a foundation provide initial assistance to those who have fled Ukraine to resettle in Japan....

The Japanese government has drawn up a rural digitalization plan under its initiative to expand digital technologies nationwide to revitalize rural areas....

US President Joe Biden has expressed strong concern over China's security accord with the Solomon Islands, and vowed deeper US involvement with Pacific island nations....

Polling stations have closed in South Korea's local elections, the first nationwide polls since the inauguration of President Yoon Suk-yeol last month....

Japanese police arrested a Vietnamese man on Wednesday on suspicion of illegally opening a trading account for crypto-assets. They suspect the account was used by a fraud group to transfer money it swindled through...

As China's commercial hub Shanghai ends its coronavirus lockdowns, tough anti-infection measures are also being eased in the capital Beijing....

Russian forces appear to have occupied most of Severodonetsk, the last remaining stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the eastern Luhansk region. The development has prompted the US to provide more military assistance to Ukraine....

K-pop supergroup BTS sat down with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday to talk about the recent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States....

Residents of Shanghai have suffered through more than two months of restrictions meant to control the spread of the coronavirus. But authorities have now lifted the lockdowns in most neighborhoods....

A new Australian government has been sworn in following last month's general election. It includes a record number of women ministers, reflecting a policy of emphasizing diversity....

A tour boat that sank off Hokkaido, northern Japan, has been shown to the families of the people who were on board....

China's military says it has conducted a...

India's economy has bounced back from a contraction during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The country's gross domestic product grew in the fiscal year through March, but there are also signs of trouble ahead....

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it confirmed 2,415 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday....

A rickshaw operator in Tokyo's major tourist spot of Asakusa has resumed English lessons for its staff ahead of Japan's planned resumption of accepting foreign tourists....

Police and railway operators in and around Tokyo have jointly launched a two-week campaign against groping on trains....

The Japanese government has announced that Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will give a keynote speech at an Asia security summit to be held in Singapore....

Tokyo prosecutors have arrested the head of a trading firm based in Dubai and two other individuals on suspicion of violating Japan's corporate tax law....

Starting on Wednesday, Japan's Meteorological Agency will issue forecasts for linear rainbands, which can cause torrential rain....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's attack of Severodonetsk in the Donbas region is...

The aggregate pre-tax profit of Japanese companies hit a record for the January-to-March period, although there were wide variations depending on the scale of the business....

The governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk said on Tuesday that Russian forces attacked a chemical plant in Severodonetsk, causing a toxic gas leak....

Japan doubled the limit for daily arrivals in Japan from abroad on Wednesday to 20,000, another step in relaxing COVID-19 border controls....

The US administration of President Joe Biden has announced a new military assistance package worth 700 million dollars for Ukraine....

The prices of fertilizers in Japan are expected to hit record highs in the five-month period through October, due largely to Russia's invasion of Ukraine....

A bomb blast has killed one person and injured nine others in central Yangon in an apparently indiscriminate attack that sent shockwaves across Myanmar....

Families of passengers on a tour boat that sank off Hokkaido will be allowed to see the raised vessel on Wednesday afternoon....

Voters in South Korea are casting their ballots on Wednesday in the country's first nationwide elections since the inauguration of President Yoon Suk-yeol....

A major Japanese chocolate maker is shifting its focus towards sustainable sweets. Fuji Oil says it has started shipping products in Japan this month that are sustainably and ethically sourced....

Russia's largest state-affiliated gas company Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it is cutting off the supplies of gas that British oil giant provides to Germany....

The Ukrainian state nuclear company has warned of a possible disaster at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that is under the occupation of Russian forces. It says the Russians have explosives and weapons on the premises of the facility....

European Union leaders have agreed to speed up shipments of Ukrainian grain by land. This comes as a Russian blockade of the Black Sea has made it impossible for Ukraine to deliver its exports over sea....

European Union leaders have agreed to facilitate food exports from Ukraine to address growing concerns over a global food crisis....

Eight pilot candidates from a Japanese regional airline are trying to earn their wings in Australia....

A spokesperson for the US State Department says Washington remains concerned about Russia's attempts to...

European Union leaders are working to move millions of tons of grain stuck in Ukrainian ports under a Russian blockade. They met in Brussels on Tuesday over their plans to transport food by road and by rail....

Authorities in a Ukrainian stronghold say Russian soldiers are destroying their city block by block. On Tuesday, the mayor of Severodonetsk, Oleksandr Stryuk, said the troops are making a...

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the agreement among European Union leaders to impose a partial oil embargo on Russia, and suggested taking more steps to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

Authorities in Shanghai have lifted coronavirus lockdowns in most parts of the city, after more than two months of restrictions took a toll on people's livelihoods and the economy....