Japan

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's military said on Friday it scrambled fighter jets after two Chinese and...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe, who remains influential in the ruling party, said on...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday emphasised to his Chinese counterpart that peace and stability in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japan's vice foreign minister pulled out of a planned news conference with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts...

TOKYO (Reuters) -In a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants, Japan is looking to allow foreigners in...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has confirmed the highly pathogenic bird flu subtype H5N8 was detected at a poultry farm in...

By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan on Tuesday distanced itself from a visit to Myanmar by its special envoy during...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised against travel to the Czech Republic, Hungary...

PARIS (Reuters) - Several outbreaks of severe bird flu in Europe and Asia have been reported in recent days to...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's ex-princess Mako, the emperor's niece, departed the country with her husband on Sunday before landing in New...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida outlined on Friday an urgent plan to increase hospital...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is considering resuming subsidies aimed at promoting domestic tourism as early as mid-January, the Nikkei...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said on Saturday U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured him in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to deepen U.S. ties with Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Preparations are underway to hold the next Quad group summit in Japan, Kyodo news agency reported on...

(Corrects typos in second paragraph) By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida outlined on Friday an...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new foreign minister said on Thursday it was important to build constructive and...

By Antoni Slodkowski and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticised the leaders of China...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck southeast of Ryukyu Islands, Japan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on...

By Antoni Slodkowski and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed on Wednesday to compile a pandemic-relief...