TOKYO -- Japan's shortest election cycle since World War II kicked off after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved the ...

In August, the U.S. Justice Department said it had indicted a man in Tennessee for facilitating the fraudulent employment of ...

Tax-free sales at the Daimaru Shinsaibashi department store for the week through Monday rose nearly 30% compared to the ...

TOKYO -- Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard has made a new takeover offer to Japanese retailer ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is set to dissolve the lower house of parliament on Wednesday to hold a snap ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Chinese EV makers are keeping production costs down by integrating multiple components into one part and maximizing in-house production, as well as standardizing parts across multiple ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Japan will begin a feasibility study in the coming days to speed up efforts toward co-production of air-to-air missiles to shore up American stockpiles that have been ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol took office in May 2022 with bold talk of remaking Asia's fourth-biggest economy. Voters bought his plan to revitalize the nation of 51 million with "fairness and ...

For more than three years, wartime atrocities in Myanmar have been in plain sight for anyone willing to look. As pro-democracy and ethnic resistance groups fight against the military junta that seized ...

TOKYO -- Japanese restaurant chain Saizeriya, known for its Italian food at rock-bottom prices, reported its first record-high annual net profit in 14 years thanks in large part to China, where its ...

OSAKA -- Tourists to Osaka, the host city of Expo 2025, likely will have one more reason to check out the gaudy billboards and neon lights in the Dotonbori district when an oversized rendition of a ...

Kurt Kelty, GM's vice president of batteries, announced the strategic shift during an investor briefing Tuesday, including plans to drop the Ultium brand for its EV platform.