Volvo, long at the forefront of automobile innovation, demonstrates this once again by saying it's going fully electric.

The upcoming trial involving the nation's leading advertising agency can serve as a catalyst for enhanced efforts to end overwork.

The Democratic Party remains unable to turn popular criticism of the Abe administration into support for the opposition.

Humankind has taken an immensely important step forward.

Japan's pending free trade deal with the EU should be considered as yet another opportunity for affected sectors to beef up their productivity and competitiveness with public support.

Disdain for multilateralism continues to be a core component of the Trump presidency.

The government must come up with a better way to maintain official documents and make them available to the public.

Governments too often have other motives — the identification of holes for future exploitation or even the "mundane" desire to steal intellectual property — for demanding source code from technology companies.

Hong Kong's anniversary has underscored problems in Beijing's international standing, U.S. relations are on the downswing and China is being challenged on other foreign policy fronts.

The iPhone has changed the world, transforming the lives of billions of people around the world and facilitating a social and economic transition that is still underway.

North Korea must be stripped of the illusion that the U.S. can be decoupled from Japan and South Korea, its two Northeast Asian allies.