By Elizabeth Buchwald Hyundai Motor Co. vehicles bound for export await shipment at a port near the company’s plant in Ulsan, South Korea. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images President Donald Trump announced on Monday he is …
Mie Prefecture plans to distribute this questionnaire to local voters to ascertain opinions about hiring foreigners. (Takuya Kitazawa) Mie Governor Katsuyuki Ichimi intends to review the prefectural government’s practice of hiring foreign nationals mainly …
Get insights on Asia’s fast-moving developments General Zhang Youxia is also accused of accepting bribes for official acts, including the promotion of an officer to the post of defence minister, WSJ reported. BEIJING – …
By SAKIKO KONDO/ Staff Writer The alcohol-free imitation beer Sapporo Super Star, developed jointly by Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and Mizuno Corp., is shown in Osaka’s Suminoe Ward on Dec. 16. (Sakiko Kondo) Sapporo Breweries …
Zhang Youxia walks down the podium after addressing the Western Pacific Navy Symposium held in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province on April 22, 2024. Ng Han Guan/AP BeijingAP — The Chinese military’s top general …
By AYATERU HOSOZAWA/ Staff Writer Passengers exit a Keihin-Tohoku Line train stuck between stations in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Jan. 16. (Nobuo Fujiwara) East Japan Railway Co. on Jan. 23 blamed human error for …
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, right, speaks at a November 2025 meeting of relevant Cabinet ministers discussing policy toward foreigners while Kimi Onoda, the minister dealing with policy toward foreign nationals, looks on. (Asahi Shimbun …
Xi urges China, Brazil to better safeguard shared interests of Global South, jointly maintain UN’s core role, intl fairness, justice in phone talks with Lula Leaders’ exchanges inject certainty, stability into a turbulent landscape: …
Restart of No 6 reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant suspended after malfunction related to control rods. The restart of a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant has been suspended in Japan, a day …
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A container port is seen from a helicopter in Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo) Japan posted a trade deficit for the fifth straight year in 2025, according to government data released …