BANGKOK -- Thailand's revered and tradition-bound community of saffron-robed Buddhist monks, long regarded as the moral ...

DALIAN, China -- Live-in postpartum helpers are increasingly popular in China despite their high prices as its culture ...

NAGO, Japan -- Junglia Okinawa opened in Japan's southernmost prefecture on July 25, and I had the privilege of visiting the ...

TOKYO -- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group will launch a fund to purchase shares of unlisted startups in an effort to develop the ...

Hagiuda, also a former LDP policy chief, was known as a confidant of Abe, who once led the party's largest faction that was influential in selecting prime ministers. Abe, Japan's longest-serving ...

TOKYO -- Japan's IT industry experienced the steepest decline in labor productivity among the Group of Seven leading industrialized economies between 2019 and 2023, as the sector's growing workforce ...

TOKYO -- A prolonged heat wave broiling Japan is beginning to impact crops and livestock, with vegetables becoming more ...

Sam Bresnick is a research fellow and an Andrew W. Marshall fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- A hushed solemnity settled over the Yokohama Commonwealth War Cemetery, a peaceful enclave tucked within ...

SINGAPORE -- With a bar scene that regularly ranks among the world's best, Singapore has earned its reputation as the cocktail capital of Asia. In 2024, it stood shoulder to shoulder with London and ...

BANGKOK -- Toyota Motor is expanding procurement of Chinese parts in Thailand, home to its largest Southeast Asian production hub, seeking less costly components to improve the competitiveness of a ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has secured a relatively favorable trade deal with the U.S., settling on a tariff rate of 19%, down ...