From rural bank runs to surging consumer indebtedness and an unprecedented bond restructuring, mounting signs of financial stress in China are putting the nation's policymakers to the test. Xi Jinping's government faces an increasingly difficult balancing act as it tries to support the world's second-largest ...

The finance and health ministries are thinking of setting up funds in each prefecture to support private hospitals trying to rid themselves of excess beds that are driving up medical costs, it has been learned. The idea calls for setting up a fund in each ...

A startup that's friendly to both the environment and your wallet is two steps away from a $1 million prize. Renewable-energy company Looop Inc., which says it can slash household electricity costs to a third of what customers pay now, advanced to the final rounds ...

The enduring statesman, who bolstered the military alliance with the U.S. and privatized the Japanese National Railways, led Japan onto the world stage in the 1980s.

The opposition camp’s boycotts over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s handling of the campaign violation affair is putting the ruling bloc under pressure as the extra Diet session comes to a close.

Aisin Seiki Co., a Toyota group auto parts maker based in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, has set about conducting work-style reform, including abolishing dress codes and low-priority meetings to give its workers breathing room to come up with new ideas. To get rid of meetings held ...

In a country famous for the longevity of its inhabitants — this year Japan's population of people age 100 or over topped 70,000 for the first time — Aomori Prefecture is an outlier. That's because Aomori consistently ranks bottom for average life expectancy for both ...

They train with swords and fighting fans after their prayers and morning chants. Meet the kung fu nuns using their martial arts skills to challenge stereotypes about women's roles in the Himalayas' patriarchal societies. "In the Himalayas, girls are never treated equally and girls are not ...

Gov. Naomichi Suzuki said there wasn’t enough time to draft protective measures, leaving at least four other areas in the running for Japan’s first three resorts.

The transition from Heisei to Reiwa came at a relatively peaceful time, with the nation's crime rate falling to a postwar low in 2018, an annual white paper released Friday by the Justice Ministry has shown. But the paper also said the 30-year Heisei Era ...

Deadly Typhoon Hagibis caused riverbanks to burst across Japan in October, and also led to sewer flooding around Sendai Station, known as the gateway to the Tohoku region, leaving roads and underground passages in the heart of the city underwater. But for local business operators, ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party raised ¥2.46 billion last year from industry groups and large companies, government data showed Friday, the seventh straight year the figure has increased. Industry bodies' contributions in 2018 to the funding body of the ruling party rose 2.7 ...

Japan looks set to re-embrace the power of public spending with one of its biggest ever stimulus packages. Slowing global growth, a higher sales tax and a string of natural disasters are giving policymakers in Tokyo plenty of reasons to lead a worldwide shift toward ...

Senior trade officials from Japan and South Korea will meet next month to discuss Tokyo's tightened controls on tech-related exports to its neighbor, trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama said Friday. The director-general-level meeting, set to take place during the third week of December in Tokyo, will ...

The United Nations rejected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's request to speak at its climate summit last September, government sources said Thursday, apparently due to the government's promotion of coal-fired power plants. Abe had wanted to brief participants at the U.N. Climate Action Summit on the ...

As political unrest in Hong Kong has continued unabated and China has shown no sign of acceding to protesters' demands, the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing mounting pressure to rescind its invitation to President Xi Jinping for a state visit next ...

Protesters in smoke-covered Sydney kicked off a fresh round of global protests against climate change on Friday, with activists and schoolchildren picketing the headquarters of bush fire-ravaged Australia's ruling party. Hundreds of people gathered at the conservative Liberal party's offices to heed the call to ...

Loading the atmosphere with 5 million tons of carbon dioxide every hour has pushed Earth dangerously close to a no-return threshold, beyond which lies an unlivable hothouse world, top climate scientists have warned. There are 15 known tipping points in the planet's complex climate system, ...

Facebook Inc. said it was working to restore access on Thursday to its users after issues with its central software systems triggered an outage in its family of apps, including Instagram, on the busy Thanksgiving Day holiday. "We quickly investigated, started restoring access, and we're ...

India's federal pollution regulator has warned coal-fired power plants around New Delhi that they could be shut down for failing to comply with deadlines to meet emissions standards, according to sources and a letter reviewed by Reuters. The move comes as New Delhi and other ...

The government's challenge will be to put together a spending package that shores up consumer spending and increases the economy's growth potential.

To avoid Latin America-style political crises, East Asian governments must ensure that their economic policies support equitable growth.

This week's episode of "Terrace House" treated us to two roommate pairings, two dates and two very different outcomes.

South Korean K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted Friday of gang rape, as well as secretly filming and distributing illicit sex videos of his partners, and sentenced to six years in prison. Jung and Choi Jong-hoon, a former member of boy band FT Island, were ...

Hikari's "37 Seconds" takes the main prize at the festival, which presented a varied program of films focusing on the Asia-Pacific region

Mo Farah announced Friday that he was targeting a return to the track to compete in the 10,000 meters at next year's Tokyo Olympics. The Briton has won double gold at each of the last two Olympics, taking the 5,000 and 10,000 crowns in London ...

Unai Emery was fired as Arsenal manager Friday after less than two years in charge and with the club without a win in seven games, its worst run since 1992. The 48-year-old Spaniard was fired following a 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in Thursday's ...

High school games played at the spiritual home of Japanese baseball will get a new look in 2020 after the organizer of the prestigious national championship on Friday announced its first pitch limits. Starting from next spring's national invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium near Osaka, ...

The owners of English Premier League champion Manchester City on Thursday made Mumbai City FC of India the eighth club in their global soccer empire. Abu Dhabi-controlled City Football Group announced the takeover of the Indian side the day after a U.S. equity fund pumped ...

New Zealand's Canterbury Crusaders announced Friday that the team will retain its name but change its logo after a review sparked by the deadly mosque shootings in its home city of Christchurch in March. Critics said the name and branding referencing medieval wars between Christians ...