Myanmar's military coup more than three years ago sparked a mass exodus that rolls on to this day. The people who flee still ...

NHK has learned that the Japanese government plans to issue bonds worth over 6.6 trillion yen, or 44 billion dollars, to ...

The Asian Development Bank has chosen a top former Japanese currency official as its new president. Kanda Masato is a former ...

The Japanese company, Unitika, which was a leader in developing the nation's textile industry, is now withdrawing from the ...

Media reports say the US Federal Trade Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft. Bloomberg and other ...

France has expressed its stance not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court in arresting Israeli Prime Minister ...

Russia's ruble has dived to the lowest level against the US dollar since March 2022, just after its invasion of Ukraine began ...

As the leaders of Nordic and Baltic countries meet in to discuss Ukraine, their governments are warning citizens that it's ...

In China, female consumers have become a force in their own right, especially in urban areas. Spurred by rising incomes and a ...

Japan's Diet convened for an extraordinary session on Thursday. Key issues for debate are political funds reform and a draft ...

Craftspeople in the western Japanese prefecture of Hyogo are busy making porcelain figurines of snakes, the Oriental zodiac ...

Sources say Japan's SoftBank Group has decided to make a fresh investment of up to 1.5 billion dollars in US-based OpenAI, ...