U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had offered to mediate a standoff between India and China at the Himalayan border, where soldiers camped out in a high-altitude region have accused each other of trespassing over the disputed border. "We have informed both India ...

Renault SA and Japanese partners Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Wednesday unveiled steps to standardize platforms further and push for more joint purchasing to reduce costs, with each company focusing on its strengths. The measures will help deliver savings of as much ...

Police rushed to the house of after emergency services received a call around 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday.

The government hopes to utilize cutting-edge technologies to address issues such as depopulation and the aging of society.

Okada Manila's president said the retrenchment affecting a third of the resort's workforce is needed for the business to remain viable.

Nationwide, 30 new infections were reported Tuesday, raising the total tally in the nation to 17,335, with 876 deaths, according to Kyodo News.

The measure addresses concerns such companies are taking advantage of their market dominance to mistreat merchants who offer wares on their platforms.

South Korea’s top prosecutor has ordered an investigation into financial fraud allegations made against a support group for “comfort women” — a euphemism for those who were forced or coerced into Japan’s wartime brothel system under various circumstances, including abduction, deception and poverty — ...

The Japanese government reains strongly concerned about the situation in Hong Kong, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a regular news conference Wednesday as riot police in the city fired pepper pellets to disperse protesters in the heart of the global financial center. After ...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday pledged to draw up a plan to give humanitarian relief to people involved in pro-democracy protests in Taiwan's most concrete intervention since a renewal of unrest in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong. China's proposed new security legislation for the former British ...

Hong Kong police cast a dragnet around the financial hub's legislature on Wednesday and fired pepper-pellet rounds in the commercial district as they stamped down on protests against a bill banning insults to China's national anthem. The latest unrest comes days after China announced separate ...

The new package is aimed at further shoring up steps to help individuals and companies that are financially struggling due to the coronavirus.

Officials hope the app will serve as a deterrent against a second wave of infections considered to be a growing risk in Japan.

Lockdown restrictions have influenced social media battle over younger voters

The revised system had been proposed to allow students to make up for delays in their tuition caused by prolonged school closures during the virus crisis.

In tweets, the Japan Tourism Agency said the program under consideration would only cover “a portion of domestic travel expenses.”

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike will announce her candidacy around June 10 for this summer's gubernatorial election in the capital, a source said Wednesday. Koike, a former defense minister, became governor in 2016 without the backing of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party. But the ...

Steve, a paramedic in northeast England, contracted the coronavirus two months ago. Then his wife fell ill. Both recovered but throughout they were concerned about passing it on to their two young sons. "On my return to work, I couldn't sleep properly, as I was ...

The arrest comes 10 months after the studio in Kyoto was set on fire, killing 36 people and injuring 33 others.

The center says national-level hospital capacity was not exceeded by patient demand.

Cummings is alleged to have ignored government orders, driving more than 250 miles to his parents’ property to get child care support.

Marco Castillo and his boyfriend, Rodrigo Campos, waited just a few hours to take advantage of a new law in Costa Rica that made the country the first in Central America to allow same-sex marriage. A judge, two witnesses, relatives and hundreds of online viewers ...

Paying drivers to deliver packages is still one of the e-commerce giant's biggest operational costs.

Vancouver police are also investigating 29 anti-Asian incidents over the past two months, seven times more than the same period last year.

The law was being revised to cover not just behavior or acts that endanger national security, but also activities, according to reports.

Uber Japan Co., which runs the Uber Eats service in Japan, said it will further raise awareness about traffic safety among its delivery workers.

CEO Masayoshi Son has said he will sell off about $42 billion in assets to finance stock buybacks and pay down debt.

Beijing says it opposes "stigmatization" of disease's beginning after Japanese leader calls it a "fact" that illness "spread from China to the world."

The analysis showed that China, Japan, Canada and South Korea were the worst offenders.

In first online summit, leaders call 'global solidarity' crucial to fighting pandemic, but voice support for investigation into world health body.

Twitter labeled two tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump "unsubstantiated" and accused him of making false claims Tuesday, a first for the social network which has long resisted calls to censure the president over truth-defying posts. The move drew a furious response from Trump, who ...

Masks can make breathing difficult and increase the risk of choking, according to the Japan Pediatric Association.

Japan should be especially worried by Pyongyang's announcement that it is strengthening its "nuclear war deterrence."

Extraordinary measures are needed.

In many urban areas of Japan, people were recently urged to stay home for weeks on in the fight to contain the spread of COVID-19. Most big bookstores in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto were closed through the end of the Golden Week holidays, making ...

Producers at Fuji TV announced on Wednesday evening that its hit reality show “Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020” has been canceled following the death of one of its young stars, 22-year-old pro wrestler Hana Kimura. A message on the official website read in part “We would ...

Okawa’s term was to expire next summer, but he decided to hand the baton to the next person a year early.

Ring name changes are not unusual, and regularly happen upon significant promotions, or as a way of changing luck after a string of bad results.

Local baseball federation to hand out masks made of washable antimicrobial fabric that are more breathable.

The New Jersey Devils' season came to an end on Tuesday after the NHL abandoned the rest of the regular season and announced plans to head straight into the playoffs with 24 teams. Only seven teams were left out of the postseason under the plan ...

Midfielder Daichi Kamada scored his first goal in Germany's top flight on Tuesday, helping Eintracht Frankfurt snap a five-match losing run in the league with a 3-3 draw at home to Freiburg. The visitors scored in the 67th and 69th minutes to take a 3-1 ...

Japan's top soccer league has been on hiatus since February because of the COVID-19 pandemic

Professional athletes may seem invincible, but like anyone else they can suffer from serious conditions that make them vulnerable to the coronavirus.