WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump convened the first official meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington Thursday, ...

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway, or JR East, plans to soon train 113 foreign workers in maintaining and repairing railcars and ...

TOKYO -- Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan on Thursday unveiled a solar farm it built at a rice paddy in southern Japan, highlighting cropland as a potential key to reaching the government's goal of ...

The trade deficit narrowed 0.2% to $901.5 billion in 2025. The goods trade gap widened 2.1% to an all-time high of $1.24 ...

Hong Kong had also advised caution when traveling to Japan in November, in the wake of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ...

TOKYO -- Honda Motor will release a new, low-priced electric motorbike in Japan on March 23, it announced Thursday, in hopes ...

TOKYO -- Having already unloaded over 80% of its strategic shareholdings, Nippon Steel could sell a further 300 billion yen ...

MANILA/HO CHI MINH CITY/KUALA LUMPUR -- Southeast Asia was a tale of two regions in 2025, as countries like Vietnam and Singapore recorded strong export growth despite U.S. tariff turbulence while the ...

Nissan is recalling 318,781 Rogue SUVs over broken throttle body gears, the regulator said. Separately, the Japanese ...

"One day in the market I really put my foot in my mouth," says Dennis (not his real name), one of the few expats who continue to live and work in Yangon five years after a February 2021 coup sent ...

TOKYO/OSAKA -- Japan on Thursday moved a step closer to approving the sale of two regenerative medicine products using induced pluripotent stem cells, marking the world's first iPS cell-based ...