After shrinking to less than half of their former glory, a community's cherished springtime flower fields are blooming again ...

ByteDance will take steps to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property on its AI video generator Seedance 2.0, the Chinese technology firm said ‌on Monday, following threats of legal ...

BANGKOK--A defamation case by Malaysia’s telecoms regulator against an Australian resident in Thailand was formally withdrawn from a Thai court on Monday after mediation, the sued man and his lawyer ...

KYOTO—More than 10,000 visitors have already stepped onto the otherworldly grounds of Toji temple here in the week since the start of its “Toji Tsuki Kairou” (Toji moon corridor).

Japan's economy limped back to meager growth in the fourth quarter, significantly missing market expectations in a key test for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government as cost-of-living ‌pressures ...

OSAKA—A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of killing a 17-year-old boy and gravely injuring two other boys of the ...

Myanmar has ordered the head of East Timor’s diplomatic mission to leave the country within seven days, state media quoted ...

Excitement is heating up in Japan over its athletes’ soaring medal count at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics whose ...

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell about 1% on Tuesday following a U.S. national holiday, while most markets in Asia ...

MELBOURNE--The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.

FUKUOKA—The Fukuoka High Court on Feb. 16 rejected a retrial for Michitoshi Kuma, a former death row inmate executed for the 1992 abduction and murders of two young girls in a case known as the ...