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China shares suffered from an underwhelming housing stimulus briefing and Japan shares took a hit from weak export data. But Taiwan chip giant TSMC is soaring.

Game 5 of the NLDS between the Dodgers and Padres drew nearly 13 million viewers in Japan.

Last Friday’s decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres was the most-watched Major League Baseball postseason game on record in Japan, averaging an estimated 12.9 million viewers, according to MLB

The Chilean sisters performed pull-ups and handstands by a torii gate in Hokkaido

Japanese phenomenon Ohtani has helped the Los Angeles Dodgers to the brink of the World Series after a rollercoaster 2024 in MLB

The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Nihon Hidankyo has provided thousands of witness accounts and public appeals by survivors, who are known as hibakusha, and has sent…

The founder of legendary Japanese rock act B’z has helped develop an Epiphone recreation of his vintage 1955 Les Paul

Learn how rising temperatures due to climate change are impacting rice farming in Japan's Okayama prefecture.

December S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESZ24) are up +0.36%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ24) are up +0.68% this morning as upbeat results from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. boosted sentiment, while investors awaited a fresh batch of U.S. economic data as well as an earnings report from streaming giant…