U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pause his so-called reciprocal tariffs for 90 days is a "positive development," Japan's top government spokesman said Thursday, though Tokyo will continue to ...

Three Japanese hairdressers have been detained in China on suspicion of engaging in businesses not permitted under their visas in violation of the country's immigration law, sources familiar with Sino ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday renewed his opposition to the sale of United States Steel Corp to Japan's Nippon Steel Corp, as he touted his tariff plans as an effective means to revive his ...

FBI Director Kash Patel was quietly removed weeks ago as the acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and has been replaced with the Army secretary, three people ...

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, who is the front-runner in opinion polls to be the country's next leader, declared his bid for the presidency on Thursday, promising to fix inequality and ...

Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave ...

Despite a shove from President Donald Trump, House Republicans abruptly postponed a vote late Wednesday on their budget framework, unable to convince conservative GOP holdouts who had raised grave ...

A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trump's administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge’s order requiring them to be reinstated in a ...

Judges in Texas and New York on Wednesday temporarily barred the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts of those two states while their lawyers challenge the Trump administration’s ...

Sharp Corp has sold part of its liquid crystal display panel factory site in western Japan to telecom giant KDDI Corp for 10 billion yen as they jointly seek to build an artificial intelligence data ...

A convenient train ride from Tokyo to Odawara by the regular Tokaido Line (one and a half hours) or Tokaido Shinkansen (35 minutes), Odawara Castle Park is an ideal getaway from bustling Tokyo to ...

"Smartphones are dangerous" screams the headline of weekly business magazine President (April 4). Leading with "The new common wisdom of smartphones and damage to health," President devotes pages 14 ...