The South Korean government said Sunday that it is planning to bring home about 300 workers who have been detained in the ...

US President Donald Trump has indicated he will boost sanctions on Russia. But Moscow has pushed back, and said more pressure ...

China's exports to the United States fell sharply in August from a year earlier amid concerns over US President Donald ...

The latest NHK opinion poll shows the approval rate for Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's Cabinet is at 39 percent, up ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's decision to resign drove Tokyo's benchmark stock index higher on Monday. Investors ...

Gold prices have hit record highs in Japan on speculation that the US Federal Reserve may cut interest rates. At the Osaka ...

Japan's largest group of rice collectors and wholesalers is raising their advance payments to rice farmers. An analyst says ...

Temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius in central Tokyo for a fourth day in September on Monday, setting a record for the ...

The defense ministers of Japan and South Korea have reaffirmed closer bilateral relations as well as trilateral cooperation ...

The former head of Taiwan's second largest opposition political party has criticized the investigation into corruption ...

Influential former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has reportedly returned to the country from Dubai ahead of a court ...

Japan's main ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to discuss how to choose its new leader after Prime Minister Ishiba ...