The road cave-in accident happened on Tuesday at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, creating a ...

BANGKOK -- Thailand's Criminal Court on Friday cleared former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to visit Malaysia for his first overseas trip since returning home in 2023. Thaksin was given permission ...

TOKYO -- The first meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump is being arranged for Feb. 7 in Washington, with the two leaders expected to affirm the ...

Reactions to the Chinese app's sudden global fame have varied among market participants, U.S. officials and tech companies, ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -- Taiwan's digital ministry said on Friday that government departments should not use Chinese startup DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) service, saying that as the product is ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Overnight stays at accommodation facilities in Japan by Japanese and foreign travelers rose 5.5% in 2024 from the previous year to a record 651.49 million, preliminary government data ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -- Fossil fuel-dependent Indonesia plans to build nuclear power plants with the capacity of about 4 gigawatts (GW) in a bid for cleaner energy, an adviser to President Prabowo ...

(Reuters) -- Myanmar's ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that Washington continues to consider the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands as included under their ...

Honda Motor and Nissan Motor have said they will determine the next steps in their planned merger by the end of January.

More automotive and aerospace shipments to the U.S. are under scrutiny as officials step up efforts to block imports believed ...

CHANGWON, South Korea -- Watching images of raucous street protests in Seoul on his smartphone, author Chun Hyun-woo's eyes ...