The Japanese embassy announced that Japan is gifting the United States with an additional 250 cherry blossom trees to ...

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Legal issues in Japan, South Korea plus schisms in North America spell trouble for once powerful Unification Church ...

Indonesian bishops slam military presence in Papua, Cambodia cracks down on scam centers, Hong Kong activists face trial, and Shinzo Abe's assassin is jailed for life. Plus, updates from Sri Lanka, ...

TAKAICHI SANAE, Japan’s prime minister, models herself on the Iron Lady. Like Margaret Thatcher, she carries a signature bag, ...

SEOUL--The wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption Wednesday ...

O n January 25th tearful crowds bade farewell to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, twin pandas at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. Some 110,000 people ...

Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to lead Japan as prime minister, skipped a sumo awards ceremony, reflecting her cautious ...

Japan no longer has pandas for the first time in half a century. The last pair, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, have returned to China ...

Japanese fans rushed to farewell the country’s last two pandas on Sunday ahead of their return to China, in a departure that highlights strained relations between the two countries.

The unconventional leader — for starters, she’s a woman — has called an early election for Feb. 8 in an effort to win a broad public mandate for change.

On January 23, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae dissolved the Diet and called for a Lower House election on February 8.