TAIPEI -- Taiwan will remain a responsible global actor while defending its sovereignty and democracy in the face of global conflicts and chaos, President Lai Ching-te said Thursday in a closely ...

TOKYO -- Global investors look unlikely to rotate money out of Japanese shares into China's stock rally, according to brokerages.

BENGALURU -- Ravi Handa was among thousands of investors who lost a combined $230 million in a cyberattack theft this summer on WazirX, a now-defunct Indian cryptocurrency exchange. Remarkably, it ...

HONG KONG -- China's government is intimidating Chinese residents in Japan who are involved in activities critical of Beijing, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn ...

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 ...

SEOUL -- North Korea's military will start working to completely cut off roads and railways connected to South Korea and fortify its side of the border with "strong defense structures," Pyongyang's ...