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TOKYO/ TAIPEI--Medium-strength Typhoon Saudel moved towards southern Japan and northern Taiwan on Tuesday where it is expected to bring heavy ra…
TOKYO/ TAIPEI/ NEW DELHI--Donald Trump’s olive branch to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the expense of a long-standing ally comes at a pivotal mom…
KINMEN, Taiwan—Peace can only be secured through strength and not even an inch of territory can be sacrificed, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te…
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is striking a partnership with a University of Tokyo startup to add artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots that…
Proceeds from Japan’s departure tax, tripled this summer to fund overtourism measures, are being funneled to projects including bear countermeas…
August is passing into memory.
TAIPEI—Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they indicted nine people, including employees of Nvidia and Super Micro, accused of illegal export …
A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers, including one from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party, headed to Beijing on Monday to me…
HONG KONG—The term “flexible employment” has gone viral in China after a prominent economics professor described gig work as a form of “welfare…
A Justice Ministry-certified Japanese-language school in Aichi Prefecture relied on unqualified instructors for years despite sponsoring foreign…
The Tokyo District Court ordered a computer systems company to pay damages to a Vietnamese national after determining it had falsely told the jo…
Bunyo Ishikawa, a photojournalist best known for documenting the front lines of the Vietnam War, died of a malignant lymphoma at a hospital in C…
SAPPORO—Six Myanmar nationals gave a tearful account here of the daily physical abuse they endured on a farm in Kyogoku, Hokkaido.
A European nation will no longer limit hereditary succession to its throne to males.
JOYO, Kyoto Prefecture—Wholesale tea is selling better than ever before. Sales are up by weight and prices are rising year on year.
MAEBASHI--Gunma Governor Ichita Yamamoto brought a souvenir home from the state of Minnesota that intrigued him on his business trip to the Unit…
A Cameroonian man who was twice rejected for refugee status and faced deportation under Japan’s tighter immigration rules will be allowed to sta…
The commander of U.S. Space Forces Japan said space is no longer a “sanctuary” and instead has become a warfighting domain, and has outlined pla…