Asian shares sink, with Japan's Nikkei down 5.6% as China-US trade war escalates 06:52 (IST) Apr 11 World news: 11 'October 7 ...

The dispute over the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands dates back to World War II. The Japanese foreign ministry reiterated ...

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Japan has refrained from talk of striking back at U.S. tariffs. Trade experts say that is because its inflation-strained ...

The U.S. defense secretary sought to reassure its ally over security ties and vowed to speed up the creation of a joint ...

BeaconLink LLC., a Tokyo-based telecom company, has officially launched the JapanConnect eSIM Store, an English-language online platform designed to support international travelers visiting Japan. The ...

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Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Kiuko Notoya is a Tokyo-based reporter and researcher, covering news and features from Japan. Yan Zhuang is a Times reporter in Seoul who covers breaking news.

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.