TOKYO -- Japanese companies hiring foreign technical trainees could be required to help these workers pay the exorbitant fees ...

TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan meets this Thursday and Friday amid expectations it will respond to the weakness of the yen with a ...

EAST MEADOW, New York (Reuters) -- India beat Pakistan by six runs in a low-scoring but tense T20 World Cup Group A encounter on Sunday at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium where more ...

Gene Burrus is global policy counsel for the Coalition for App Fairness, a Washington-based advocacy group for app developers ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea's main doctors' lobby group said on Sunday it would go on strike on June 18 to protest the government's healthcare reform plan, defying a warning by the prime minister ...

YAMAGUCHI, Japan -- The world's top supplier of equipment for producing imitation crab sticks is now contributing to cutting-edge medical technology, thanks to a try-anything approach that has ...

BEIJING -- Japanese artists are increasingly taking the stage at music festivals and holding concerts in mainland China as more live events come back since COVID-19 restrictions eased over a year ago.

BALI, Indonesia -- Ketut Rani, a 42-year-old Indonesian living in Bali, collects plastic trash twice a day to earn a living.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- Narendra Modi was sworn in as India's prime minister on Sunday for a record-equaling third term, but ...

KYOTO -- Kyoto's famed Gion district is struggling to balance its centuries-old way of life against the pressure to welcome ever-greater numbers of foreign tourists, some of whose misbehavior has ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea will begin loudspeaker broadcasts directed at North Korea on Sunday that will be "unbearable" for the Kim Jong Un regime, its National Security Council said, after ...

Welcome to Your Week in Asia. Iran is gearing up to pick a new president after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter ...