BEIJING/HONG KONG – Just over a year ago, China gave Bashar Assad and his wife a warm welcome during their six-day visit to the country, offering the former Syrian leader...

Oslo – Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, urging countries to abolish the weapons resurging as a threat 80 years after the...

Europe’s bid to build a homegrown battery industry to break China’s dominance in electric vehicles is failing. The most high-profile setback yet came with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Northvolt,...

Nippon Life Insurance is in the final stages of buyout talks with U.S. life insurer Resolution Life Group Holdings, Resolution said on Tuesday, in what would reportedly be a $8.2...

Sharp has announced an agreement with mobile phone carrier KDDI to build an artificial intelligence center on the site of the electronics maker’s halted liquid crystal display panel plant in...

Kentaro Kitagawa, former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, will plead not guilty of raping a female prosecutor while in office in September 2018, his lawyer said Tuesday....

Japan’s top business lobby has proposed a policy plan to boost the country’s gross domestic product to ¥1 quadrillion ($6.6 trillion), urging the government to raise taxes on the rich...

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung sought to force through a highly contested budget Tuesday in a show of political clout as he seeks to build momentum for another impeachment...

Winter is approaching, bringing a frosty chill to Japan and making hot baths especially inviting — but also risky. While Japan doesn’t typically experience deep-freeze conditions, the winter temperature drop...