SEOUL (Reuters) -- The foreign ministers of North Korea and Russia reaffirmed their commitment to implement provisions agreed to in June between the leaders of the two nations, North Korean state ...

SHIOBARA, Japan -- In travel, timing can be everything. A successful trip is often determined by the weather or the cultural ...

TOKYO -- The recent death of Japanese voice actor Nobuyo Oyama, best known for playing the blue robot character Doraemon, has ...

DALIAN, China -- The pet industry is growing fast in China despite the slumping economy as more young people choose to live ...

TOKYO -- China may be on the verge of announcing a big new dose of economic stimulus, but there are already doubts over ...

TOKYO -- Risk-averse Japanese investors should be more willing to buy into Africa and its growth potential, as China, Europe ...

HONG KONG -- For decades, pianos symbolized wealth and cultural sophistication in China as the country opened to the outside world. Buying a piano and learning to play it became rites of passage for ...

TOKYO -- Sanrio reported its highest-ever first-half net profit Friday, thanks partly to efforts to tie earnings less to star character Hello Kitty even as the Japanese company celebrates her 50th ...

(Reuters) -- The U.S. said on Friday it imposed a $500,000 penalty on New York-based GlobalFoundries, the world's third-largest contract chipmaker, for shipping chips without authorization to an ...

(Reuters) -- Intel will lose its spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after a 25-year run to Nvidia, S&P Dow Jones ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- North Korea will back Russia until it achieves victory in the Ukraine war, its Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said on Friday at talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ...

TOKYO -- Major Japanese publishers are increasingly releasing manga domestically and overseas at the same time, in a bid to actively draw foreign fans to new titles rather than passively benefit from ...