A school designed to train sake professionals near Tokyo has accepted its first foreign student since opening two decades ago ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has urged US President Donald Trump to stop putting pressure on Tehran by indicating ...

Japanese and Thai police authorities have confirmed that they will join forces to crack down on fraud rings in Myanmar.

An American academic living in Thailand is under arrest on a charge of insulting the monarchy. Thailand has a strict ...

Japanese government and central bank officials have held an extraordinary meeting on the sharp fluctuations in financial ...

Businesses in Japan are expressing worries about the impact of US President Donald Trump's tariff policies. One of these is ...

The president of a Japanese expressway operator says it plans to create a manual to deal with system glitches that affect wide areas.

The US Senate has officially confirmed George Glass as the new ambassador to Japan. The Senate approved his nomination by a ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto plans to offer temporary shelter to 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza. The announcement comes ahead of his visit to the Middle East.

Officials in Tokyo are scrambling to find ways to alleviate the impact of US reciprocal tariffs that kicked in on Wednesday.

Japan's agriculture minister says more stockpiled rice will be released every month until the summer. He also says the third auction of 100,000 tons of stockpiles will be held later this month.

Stock indexes around the world dropped on Wednesday on concerns the risk of a global recession is rising. The benchmark index in Taiwan, Taipei's TAIEX, slumped 5.79 percent from the previous trading ...