SEOUL--South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday over a short-lived martial law, plunging ...

BANGKOK--Asian shares were mixed on Friday after China reported lower corporate profits in November, the fourth straight ...

The Japanese Cabinet on Friday approved a record 8.7 trillion yen ($55 billion) defense budget for 2025 as Japan accelerates ...

The Cabinet on Dec. 27 approved a record budget worth 115.541 trillion yen ($732 billion) for fiscal 2025, but it could face ...

Bullying, vague contracts, threats to livelihoods and pressure on competitors are used by talent agencies to keep their ...

Travelers from six Asian countries where tuberculosis is prevalent will have to undergo screenings for the disease before visiting Japan for three months or longer, the health ministry announced Dec.

Japan is shifting toward greater reliance on nuclear power, with the government introducing a new energy policy that ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency on Dec. 26 released images of nuclear fuel debris retrieved from the No. 2 reactor at the ...

Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in 1993 told U.S. officials he was concerned about the “direct threat” posed by North Korea’s ...

SHIZUOKA—The defense team of former death row inmate Iwao Hakamata blasted the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office and Shizuoka ...

Thanks to several strokes of luck, no one aboard the Japan Airlines passenger jet died in the collision with a Japan Coast ...

BANGKOK--China’s economy grew a bit more in 2023 than earlier thought, but the revision has not affected forecasts for “about ...