KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Taiwanese rocket crashed shortly after lifting off from a private spaceport in northern Japan, ...

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government has partly lifted a blanket ban on exporting the totoaba, a large fish prized in China ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading company Itochu plans to begin operating in 2028 a vessel that supplies ammonia fuel to other ships, ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group was one of the first big Japanese banks to focus on art, launching a dedicated team in November 2021. In addition to sponsoring fairs and providing opportunities to ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russia's top diplomat his country was ready to "unconditionally ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- A ceramics maker in central Japan's Aichi prefecture is luring a new wave of tourists with maneki-neko beckoning cats.

It is perhaps no surprise, then, that Masamune Shirow's 1989 manga classic "Ghost in the Shell" -- which presents a ...

TOKYO -- Australia's Cochlear, the world's largest maker of hearing implants, has built out production capacity to pursue a ...

China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing, days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. Putin has sometimes described China as an ...

Legendary boxer Manny Pacquiao first became a world champion at the age of 19 on December 4, 1998. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was in full swing, households were transitioning from VHS videotape to ...

(Reuters) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday imposed a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico and the European Union starting on August 1 after weeks of negotiations with the key trading allies failed ...

TOKYO -- Bankruptcies of used car dealerships in Japan are increasing despite strong demand due to higher inflation, as a ...