NEW TAIPEI/KAOHSIUNG -- Taiwanese electronics supplier Yageo says its acquisition of Japanese peer Shibaura Electronics would be a "win-win" for the makers of passive components used in everything ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea's internet was hit by a major outage that lasted several hours on Saturday, knocking off connections to government websites and official news services, and severing the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to let rare earth ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thailand has reinforced its military presence along a disputed border with Cambodia, following an increase in troops on the other side, Thailand's defense minister said on ...

More than 10,000 trading card enthusiasts attended Bandai’s two-day "One Piece" event in Dallas, Texas, in March. TOKYO -- Global appetite for Japanese trading cards continues to grow, with July ...

Terra Drone, a Japanese maker of unmanned aerial vehicles, in late May replaced conventional plastic airframe covers with a new biocomposite material. Fibers for making the material come from dregs ...

KITAMI, Japan -- Far from the flash and fame of Japan's megacities, the Okhotsk region of Hokkaido, the most northerly of Japan's four main islands, sits quiet and unassuming along the coast of its ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was flown back to the United States to face criminal charges of ...

TOKYO -- Activist investors have targeted at least 50 Japanese companies with shareholder proposals so far in 2025, a record ...

But asked if another meeting could spur progress, Balakrishnan said, "Time has moved on since the past seven years, and ...

TEL AVIV (AP) -- Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. The Prime ...

TOKYO -- Japan's ispace seeks to become Asia's first private sector company to land successfully on the moon, but it is ...