Japan department store sales exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time last year, helped by demand from a surge in ...

Admired by John F. Kennedy, Uesugi Yozan transformed the fortunes of the struggling Yonezawa Domain. Peter Barakan visits ...

Cambodia has set out to build a historic new canal. While some have high hopes of business opportunities and economic ...

Kawashima Toru is a chef of Japanese cuisine based in Noto. Through the power of food and human connection, he's been working ...

Japan's traditional papercraft, origami, has come to be used in engineering, as researchers observe insects and other ...

People have filled a traditional thatched icehouse with snow in Kanazawa, a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, inspired by a ...

Russia's defense ministry says its troops have captured a strategically important town in Ukraine's Donetsk region as Russian ...

US federal health agencies have stopped updating their websites and posting on social media since President Donald Trump's ...

Japan's Fuji Television will hold an emergency board meeting on Monday during which it is expected to discuss whether its ...

China's manufacturing activity in January fell below the boom-or-bust line for the first time in four months, reflecting weak ...

An expressway operator in Tokyo is eyeing congestion pricing for the city's increasingly crowded tollways. It's part of a ...

An NHK survey shows a majority of major companies in Japan expect moderate growth in the economy in 2025. They cite a likely ...