The European Union will propose extending €150 billion ($158 billion) in loans to boost defense spending as the bloc tries to adjust to U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt pullback of...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group will leave the banking industry’s main climate-finance alliance, the first major Japanese lender to join an exodus led by institutions from Wall Street and Canada. Japan’s...

KYIV – Washington’s suspension of military assistance will not lead to a sudden collapse of Ukraine’s defensive lines, but it could have a real impact on the war within months,...

A panel of experts under Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency on Tuesday selected Japanese calligraphy again as a candidate for UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The government is expected to submit...

Renowned Japanese writer Ayako Sono, known for many best-selling novels and essays, died of natural causes at a Tokyo hospital on Friday. She was 93. A graduate of the University...

On a Sunday morning in January, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) in Kiba Park was flooded with bright winter light and a throng of people. Visitors waited in...

LONDON – Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as the Islamic Republic deepened its defense cooperation with Moscow, a review of travel records and...

WELLINGTON – Corey Ngaru and his partner Elian Lellimo left recession-hit New Zealand for the sunshine of Australia’s Gold Coast just a week ago, bidding a teary farewell to family...

WASHINGTON – Mounting trade wars between the United States and its largest economic partners deepened on Tuesday as U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China kicked in, sparking swift retaliation...