Japan’s first local regulation requiring solar panel installations on new single-family homes took effect on April 1 in Tokyo and Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture ...
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BANGKOK—Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday after U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records, while oil prices advanced as doubts persisted over when the war with Iran will allow crude ...
TAIPEI—The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged — about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her ...
Typhoon No. 15 made landfall in southern Ibaraki Prefecture at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 11, making history as the first to do so in the prefecture since record-keeping began in 1951. The typhoon crossed ...
Typhoon Dolphin churned deeper inland to the ‌central Chinese province of Hubei on Tuesday, flooding streets, forcing the closure of tourist ⁠areas and halting construction projects, as forecasters ...
The average price of a new apartment in Tokyo’s 23 wards in fiscal 2025 topped 130 million yen ($827,000) for the first time, while surrounding areas also soared to record highs, a report showed. The ...
The Kishida Cabinet plans to approve a package of “different dimensions” measures to stem the nation’s declining birthrate, which will call for annual outlays of 3.6 trillion yen ($24.7 billion), by ...
Japan along with leading Western nations are beginning to take action to reduce their dependence on Russian nuclear fuel by seeking to build an independent supply chain. Western countries have ...
Tax authorities have discovered that the Japanese arm of Netflix Inc. failed to declare a total of 1.2 billion yen ($10 million) in income over the three years through December 2019, according to ...
SEOUL--North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the sea off the Korean ‌Peninsula's east coast, South Korea's military ⁠said.
SEOUL—South Korea and ⁠the United States will conduct major joint military drills from August 17 to 27, incorporating ...