East Asia

The leaders of US and Germany have been in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, once again, that Ukrainians are committing sabotage inside his country. He is promising a crackdown in response to what he calls a...

Construction of public housing is underway for people who have lost their homes in quake-hit southern Turkey....

More than 1,000 schoolgirls across Iran have complained of what appear to be symptoms of poisoning....

A Japanese female stage actor has sued a prominent sexual harassment lawyer for sexual harassment....

A court in Belarus has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison....

The foreign ministers of Japan and India have agreed their countries should focus on strengthening security and economic ties, among other areas....

Legendary American jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89....

China's Foreign Ministry has taken a swipe at the so-called Quad group comprising Japan, the United States, Australia and India. It said countries should not form exclusionary blocs....

Japanese astronaut Wakata Koichi is scheduled to end his months-long stay on the International Space Station and return to Earth in the coming days....

A Chinese military contingent is taking part in massive multinational military drills in Thailand....

Japan's space agency has officially announced that it will launch its new H3 flagship rocket on Monday from a site in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima....

One of Cambodia's most prominent former opposition leaders has been sentenced to 27 years....

Russian forces claim they are on the verge of capturing the key city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine....

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the US Marine Corps have invited the media to observe some of their joint exercises aimed at bolstering the defense of remote Japanese islands....

Japan's Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken have shared the recognition that it is important that countries not provide military support to Russia....

Japan's biggest convenience store chain wants to make the shopping experience even more convenient. Seven-Eleven Japan is testing out a robot delivery service that it plans to introduce in offices and hospitals....

Japanese automaker Subaru has announced its first leadership change in five years. The firm is reorganizing to strengthen its hand in the shift to electric vehicles....

The foreign ministers from the Quad nations of Japan, the United States, Australia and India have reaffirmed their stance to oppose any unilateral attempt to change the status quo....

Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa says Japan will continue to urge China to abide by international law....

Japan's health ministry confirmed 736 new cases of the coronavirus in Tokyo on Friday....

Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu says Japan's counterstrike capabilities won't change the roles of the country or the United States in national defense....

US health officials say recent cases of bird flu discovered in two Cambodians, one of them fatal, show no sign of human-to-human transmission....

Russia's defense ministry says one of its submarines has successfully test-fired a cruise missile in the Sea of Japan....

Former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide will assume the head of the supra-partisan Japan-South Korea parliamentarians'; union....

Japan's jobless rate hit a nearly three-year low in January as the economy enjoys a rebound from the effects of the pandemic. The seasonally adjusted rate inched down one tenth of a point to 2.4 percent....

Vietnam's parliament elected Vo Van Thuong as president in an extraordinary session on Thursday. His role is the country's second-highest after Communist party leader....

A senior Russian diplomat has made comments at a disarmament conference to justify the suspension of his country's participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty it signed with the US. Western delegates left the meeting in protest as he ma...