Maekawa was accused of murdering the 15-year-old girl at her home in Fukui Prefecture in March 1986. The Fukui District Court ...

NEW DELHI -- Dismissing NATO chief Mark Rutte's warning that countries like India, China and Brazil could be hit by secondary sanctions for continuing to buy Russian oil, New Delhi has said that ...

Moderna Japan had planned to build an mRNA drug plant at Shonan Health Innovation Park in Kanagawa prefecture. The company shelved the plan, citing weak demand for vaccines and a poor business ...

While naval patrols and island-building dominate headlines about the South China Sea, China is waging another, quieter campaign -- one that unfolds not at sea, but in seminar rooms, policy briefings ...

TOKYO -- Russia's and China's recent friendliness with the Taliban interim government in Afghanistan, intended to reap ...

The site near Princeton, New Jersey, is about an hour south of New York on the Interstate 95 highway, the main artery of the ...

TOKYO -- Rapidus, Japan's $34 billion project to restore the country's advanced chip-making capabilities, announced its first major update regarding test production of 2-nanometer chips on Friday, ...

The Hong Kong dollar-denominated ETF -- which tracks the Bitcoin Reference Rate by Chicago's CME CF Cryptocurrency Benchmarks -- rose 2.3% in its debut.

TOKYO -- The surge in support for right-wing Sanseito ahead of upper house elections on Sunday has caught mainstream Japanese political parties and media off guard with its unabashedly 'Japanese first ...

TOKYO -- Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard has called it quits after a yearlong siege to take over Japan's iconic Seven & i Holdings. Market experts see the withdrawal as an invitation for ...

TOKYO -- The surge in support for right-wing Sanseito ahead of upper house elections on Sunday has caught mainstream Japanese political parties and media off guard with its unabashedly 'Japanese first ...

COLOMBO/TOKYO -- Plastic pellet spills, a phenomenon little understood but disproportionately harmful to ecosystems and human health, are becoming an alarmingly frequent consequence of modern maritime ...