Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have reaffirmed the close relationship between their ...

Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond yield hit 3.0 percent on Tuesday, the highest in almost 30 years.

South Africa's dream to create a discrimination-free society appears to be in jeopardy. Nationwide protests are targeting ...

The United States is hosting the Group of 20 finance chiefs for talks on the world economy. Global economic risks and how to ...

Tensions are flaring between the United States and Iran after they traded strikes for the first time in more than a month, ...

Ise Jingu, one of Japan's most significant shrines, is rebuilt every 20 years in a special ceremony. In preparation for its ...

Many towns in Japan have tried to counter depopulation by offering incentives to attract new residents. But a town in ...

Europe increasingly sees Japan as a stable partner in an unstable world. Now Belgium plans to station a defense attache in ...

People have gathered outside a city hall in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, to call on the city to reject an initial ...

Participants have competed to see how fast and how far they could run across logs floating on a lake in a town in Tokushima ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has commented about Japan's monetary policy ahead of the G20 meeting of finance chiefs in ...

Scam centers are surging across Southeast Asia. Governments in the region are struggling to respond, driving calls for ...