The credit card arm of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group will cut processing fees for small and midsize merchants by around 30% within the year, putting its rate among the lowest in the industry ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held a series of meetings in Hawaii with his counterparts from the three countries last Thursday to set an "ambitious course" for the Indo-Pacific, a four-way ...

TOKYO -- The credit card arm of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group will cut processing fees for small and midsize ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said on Tuesday they filed suit in U.S. federal court ...

Industrial machinery maker Japan Steel Works has secured a contract from the Defense Ministry to produce armored vehicles for ...

LONDON -- A "malign actor" hacked the British military's payroll system, and the government "cannot rule out" foreign state ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has repeatedly expressed strong interest in holding a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

SEOUL/TOKYO -- The abrupt disbanding of an expert panel tasked with monitoring North Korean compliance with United Nations sanctions has raised concerns that Pyongyang will have a free hand to ramp up ...

TOKYO -- Honda Motor will team up with taxi companies to roll out self-driving cabs in Japan, supplying vehicles and systems ...

TOKYO -- Japan, China and South Korea are finalizing plans for a two-day summit in Seoul starting May 26, the first such ...

BANGKOK -- Thailand's air force chief will fly to Sweden and the U.S. this month to discuss details of a planned procurement ...

SINGAPORE -- The founder of the Philippine fast-food giant Jollibee, Tony Tan, is throwing his full weight behind the initial ...