Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has carried out a threat to publicly shame people not complying with coronavirus border control measures,...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Monday no decision has yet been made on its joint...

By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Monday sent a warship to the South China Sea for the first...

PARIS (Reuters) - It would be an honour if Europe were to grant political asylum to Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya,...

(Reuters) -The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields GENEVA (Reuters) - The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting...

By Makiko Yamazaki and Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan said on Friday it will expand states of emergency to three...

By Mitch Phillips, Rozanna Latiff and Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) -Top-ranked Novak Djokovic had his dreams of tennis gold dashed...

By Pak Yiu and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Ten European diplomats expressed support on Friday for a Frenchman who...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Takashi Umekawa TOKYO (Reuters) -Two people attending the Tokyo Olympics from overseas have been admitted to...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South and North Korea have restored hotlines that Pyongyang severed a year ago when ties...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South and North Korea reopened their hotlines on Tuesday after a yearlong communications vacuum...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - Artur Dalaloyan was hailed as a hero by his teammates on Monday for competing...

MOSCOW/TOKYO (Reuters) -Russia rejected what it called a hostile Japanese diplomatic protest following a visit by the Russian prime minister...

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) -Millions of Japanese watched the Olympics opening ceremony and many are cheering on their athletes,...

(In third paragraph of July 23 story, deletes erroneous reference to Canadian flagbearers wearing rainbow badges in support of the...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike met on Sunday to discuss the Olympic Games...

By Michael Martina, Yew Lun Tian and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will tell...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will make clear to Chinese officials in talks in China...