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The government will likely lift its strict export controls on semiconductor materials and other items to South Korea if Seoul withdraws a complaint lodged with the World Trade Organization against Japan, government sources said.

Ireland and Scotland will feature with South Africa in a devilishly competitive World Cup pool in France but this jeopardy is no bad thing

Centara Hotels and Resorts (CHR) is aiming for revenue of 10 billion baht this year, exceeding the tally in 2019, with Chinese tourists expected to help the company gain momentum as it opens six more hotels in Thailand and Japan in 2023.

The first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been a good opportunity to reflect on the war's global implications. In addition to untold human misery, Russia's aggression triggered a historic food and energy crisis and caused global inflation to spike, endangering the world's fragile economic recovery from Covid-19. But…

WASHINGTON -- Astronaut Koichi Wakata has sent a message of support to the two latest candidates for Japan's astronaut corps, and even admitted feeling "envious" that they might participate in moon landings in the future.

Advances in digital mapping have lead to authorities discovering 14,125 islands in Japanese territory - a massive 7,300 more than originally detected in a Coast Guard report in 1987

A group of residents of Japan who say they suffered decades of human rights abuses in North Korea after being lured there by false promises of a “Paradise on Earth” are asking a Japanese appeals court to rule that North Korea should pay them compensation

The discovery was part of the ScanPyramids project, a collaboration between major universities in France, Germany, Canada and Japan and a group of Egyptian experts that began in 2015

Russia cannot be allowed to wage war with impunity, Antony Blinken and his counterparts from India, Japan and Australia have said