By Damian Flanagan There is a curious historical footnote that tends to be forgotten about the Japanese imperial expansion of ...

Prepare for higher U.S. interest rates if Japan cuts its U.S. Treasury bond holdings. But there could be a silver lining.

Four songs by the hitmakers charted in the mid-year Japan Hot 100 top five -- the first time any act has accomplished this ...

While tidal power is a relatively new entrant to the renewables landscape, it could offer a boon to the energy transition.

To the delight of her millions of fans of the late Teresa Tang, the track titled "Love Songs Are Best in the Foggy Night" ...

Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung won a comfortable victory in South Korea’s snap presidential election. But far-right forces ...

For Japan and many other countries, the vulnerability that comes with relying on U.S. markets has become startlingly clear.

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent ...

Japanese policymakers are increasingly broaching discussions of “strategic autonomy” as concerns mount about Washington’s ...

"Ran" remains my favorite Kurosawa film, though, even 40 years after its original theatrical release. I first watched it when I was a kid — it was probably the first foreign-language movie I ever ...

Japan's Yasuhide Uno takes on Netflix on his home turf with U-Next; India-born Sunny Varkey partners with billionaire Gautam ...

In a 2024 article on Japan’s changing refugee policy in the Asia-Pacific Journal, Maximilien Xavier Rehm, a researcher at ...