The government is also considering expanding aid to child-rearing families using the Urban Renaissance Agency to live near close relatives.

Japan's coronavirus-related immigration curbs have led to a nearly 95% drop in passengers on international flights, crippling the airline industry.

From California to Australia, thousands of homeowners and businesses can no longer afford insurance in places where natural disasters are increasing.

The meeting helps clear the way for a third term in office for Xi, securing his position as China's most powerful leader since Mao.

The imposition of a sweeping national security law by China last year on its once freest city is casting a pall over the opening of Hong Kong's M+ contemporary art museum.

An unusual flurry of diplomatic activity suggests a subtle shift may be underway in Europe, driven in part by the region’s growing frustration over China’s aggressive posture.

Proposals to be finalized Friday aim to bolster the country’s hospital capacity, expand its vaccine campaign and advance treatment and testing.

Thursday's daily tally was below 50 for the 26th consecutive day, but up 17 from a week earlier.

The world’s richest person created a firestorm over the weekend with the survey about whether he should sell part of his Tesla stake.

The Metropolitan Police Department has helped more than 60 women in Tokyo through its initiative in the past year.

The cards used internationally certified paper produced from forests that have not been illegally logged.

The battle has made guerrilla fighters of university lecturers, day laborers, tech workers, students and artists and forced countless young men and women into a life on the run.

A system jointly developed by the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and SoftBank Corp. converts sign-language gestures into written text.

The world's most indebted real-estate developer is grappling with more than $300 billion in liabilities, $19 billion of which are international market bonds.

The survey covered some 121,000 patients diagnosed at 32 medical institutions across 27 of the nation's 47 prefectures.

The United States and China announced a joint agreement Wednesday to "enhance ambition” on climate change, saying they would work together to do more to cut emissions this decade while China committed for the first time to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The pact ...

Setouchi, who is known for depicting the lives and loves of modern women in award-winning novels such as "The End of Summer" and "Ask the Blossoms," died of heart failure.

When Kishi and Aquilino last met in June, they agreed on the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

A study found that more than 5,000 South Africans die annually in the nation's coal belt because the government has failed to fully enforce its own air quality standards.

Abe left the faction in 2012 before his second stint as prime minister.

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has announced that she intends to tap Kenji Okamura, a former top Japanese financial diplomat, for the senior post.

The automaker premiered its Solterra, built on the new "e-Subaru Global platform,” at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.

The four-decade high in growth of the corporate goods price index following a similar spike in China's factory gate prices, amid supply bottlenecks and rising commodity costs.

The PlayStation 5 became the fastest Sony console to reach 10 million units sold this July, but it has fallen behind the sales pace of its predecessor PlayStation 4 since then.

The latest information on returning to Japan after end-of-year travel: COVID-19 tests, required documentation, quarantine updates and more.

The tourism industry and local governments that were financially devastated by the pandemic have been calling for the Go To Travel program to be quickly restarted.

Hayashi also said he has decided to quit as the head of a cross-party parliamentary group promoting Japan-China friendship, after serving for about four years.

The stock market is playing a crucial role in funneling money into new sectors of the economy, including companies deploying green technology.

With elections out of the way, Kishida has set an ambitious agenda of passing economic stimulus on Nov. 19, as well as an extra budget to fund the spending by the end of this month.

As of Monday, the price stood at ¥169.0 per liter, up ¥0.3 from a week earlier, the industry ministry said.

Xi is set to deliver the first resolution on Communist Party history in 40 years, giving him the mandate to potentially rule for life.

In a speech in Baltimore on Wednesday, Biden explained why prices have risen, why some products are hard to find and how his legislative plans will ameliorate those problems.

Singles Day — so-called for its 11/11 date — began more than a decade ago and for years was a one-day, 24-hour event.

Xi said attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on geopolitical grounds were bound to fail.

Developers, attuned to Beijing’s fast and furious credit cycles, are once again coming up with naughty if twisty ways to borrow and survive this harsh winter.

Israeli and the U.S. only want to address the “quality-of-life” issues facing the 5 million Palestinians living under occupation without working to remove the cause of those issues.

Afghans are trapped between a radical Islamist group and a global community apparently content to sit back and let their aid-dependent country plunge into crisis.

Subscribers to one bread delivery subscription service, which also offers rolls and pastries, have reached 10,000.

Veteran actress Shinobu Otake takes on the role of Dr. Ruth Wolff, a Jewish physician, and tackles modern ills in a Japanese production of Robert Icke's latest work.

Kensaku Kakimoto’s moody romance has an interesting premise about the relationship between love and mental illness, but it doesn’t quite settle on the right tone.

Yoshihiro Mori’s film about broken dreams and lost love meticulously recreates Tokyo as it was in the 1990s, and its two leads deliver finely nuanced performances.

Yamamoto struck out 10 in a shutout of the Marines in Game 1.

China can expect a host nation bump in the medal standings at next year's Winter Olympics, but predicting exactly how well the country will do in Beijing is proving to be an unprecedented challenge for Simon Gleave and his team. Gleave, the head of sports ...

Karolina Pliskova got off to a winning start in the singles competition at the WTA Finals by continuing her dominance of Garbine Muguruza with a 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) victory over the Spaniard. Czech No. 3 seed Pliskova, who at 29 is the oldest player ...

Ohtani was named at designated hitter and starting pitcher.

The 33-year-old Fury outlasted Wilder in an enthralling slugfest in Las Vegas that was more competitive than many had expected.

Yasunobu Okugawa and Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitch shutouts to open the second stage of the NPB playoffs.