Driven by Gen Z spending and streaming, the region's US$1.3 billion anime market represents a triumph for Japan's cultural ...

Japan has been shifting its defense focus toward Southeast Asia over the past decades, a process that has accelerated under ...

Drawn by cheap valuations and the need to diversify portfolios, foreign funds have poured $337 million into Southeast Asia’s ...

East and Southeast Asia stood out in 2025 as emerging education hubs in their own right rather than just source markets. Here ...

Economic and geopolitical necessity drives ASEAN countries to stand against isolationism and choose economic openness.

The global shift to renewable energy is poised to shape 21st-century geopolitics, much as fossil fuels did in the 20th. While China is investing in green technology to advance both economic and ...

Then-Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi inspects an apple orchard in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, part of a JICA Partnership Program, Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan At the ...

Thailand accounts for nearly 20 percent of the Southeast Asian auto market. However, the combined share of the Thai market held by nine Japanese automakers dropped to 69.8 percent for the first 10 ...