Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Malaysia between July 8 and 12 for meetings of the Association of Southeast ...

Rubio has yet to visit Japan, or neighboring South Korea, the other major U.S. ally in Northeast Asia, since taking office in ...

"Southeast Asia is affected by all of those events. In times of increasing uncertainties, Japan as a pacifist partner and a protagonist for free trade is seen as a stabiliser sharing interests ...

Since the late 1990s, Japan has prioritized human resource development in Southeast Asia. One of the most pressing challenges Southeast Asia faces is growing inequality—both within respective ...

The current state of Southeast Asia. The ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute has recently released its State of Southeast Asia 2024 survey and the media has largely focused on the respondents’ choice ...

In Southeast Asia, Japan can be said to enjoy unrivaled popularity. According to the 2015 Pew Global Attitudes survey, an average of about 80 percent of respondents surveyed across four Southeast ...

Ever since ties with Beijing soured in 2012, Tokyo has shifted its investment attention to Southeast Asia. In 2013, Japanese corporate investments in the region were triple that in China.

In its search for a cheaper manufacturing base, Japan is expanding aid and investment into Laos and other Southeast Asia's frontier markets, many of them traditional allies of Beijing. The WSJ's ...

Southeast Asia, sometimes referred to as the open growth center of the world, continues to experience rapid economic ...

Southeast Asia's economies grew by about 7 percent last year. Song said Thailand is one of the countries in Southeast Asia most exposed to economic effects from Japan, partly because of its ...

Japan is still winning the Southeast Asia infrastructure race against China, with pending projects worth almost one and a half times its rival, according to the latest data from Fitch Solutions.

In Southeast Asia, where loyalty to Japanese marques is so strong that almost every car in Indonesia as recently as 2019 was from the nation, Chinese brands are chipping away.