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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…
FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture—For a woman in her 50s who lost her job at a company at the end of July, a box lunch program for children costing…
WENCHANG, China—On a sweltering August night, thousands on China’s Hainan island thronged the beaches around the Wenchang Space Launch Site, pho…
WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, and said the A…
SEOUL—Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that Beijing was “actively considering” a summit between the leaders of South Korea …
The labor ministry on Aug. 19 unveiled new guidelines to end urging companies to cap monthly overtime at 45 hours, making it easier for employer…
SEOUL—South Korea will flag off on Saturday a container ship bound for Europe via the Arctic, testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice…
HONG KONG—Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison said Thursday it was seeking more than $1.5 billion in damages from Panama after the country seize…
Tomoko Akane, the president of the International Criminal Court, liked math and science when she was in elementary school.
WASHINGTON--The U.S. imposed sanctions on Tuesday on the International Criminal Court’s president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, Secr…
SEOUL--For decades, the United States and South Korea have regularly staged military drills to prepare their soldiers to work together smoothly…
SEOUL--North Korea denounced military drills by the U.S. and South Korea, saying it would continue exercising its right to self-defense to cou…
SEOUL--South Korea and the U.S. will cut the duration of their annual joint military drills to five days from 11 and scale back some field tra…
A prison visit by a government minister led to an outburst on the internet, as Japan’s conservative commentators raged over a false statistic ab…
TAIPEI--Taiwan is determined to strengthen its defenses and plans record defense spending next year, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, de…
The government plans to shift the management of highly sensitive information to the cloud, using services offered by private-sector companies, s…
The USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched in 1960.
BANGKOK-- Loaves of sourdough bread now fill the display window of Suchart and Friends Gun, a firearms shop-turned-bakery in Bangkok’s old qua…