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Japan will be relaxing some of its strictest Covid entry barriers this month, although individual tourists will still be barred

An American diplomat in Tokyo has criticized what he calls China’s “increasingly hostile maritime actions” as a threat to the safety of waterways in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific

SEOUL -- A South Korean advisory council has agreed that the issue of the lawsuits involving Japanese companies and former wartime requisitioned workers from the Korean Peninsula should be resolved by paying compensation to the plaintiffs through a foundation or fund, instead of from the defendant Japanese companies.

The British government has selected a team including the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to develop a high temperature gas reactor (HTGR), eying a demonstration of the next-generation nuclear technology in the 2030s.

Public opposition to ceremony grows over cost to taxpayer and ex-PM’s ties to Unification church

Bribery allegations against a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member are widening as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Haruyuki Takahashi in a case involving suspected payments from a publisher which became a sponsor for the Games

Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing. The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen ($71) per booking to accompany clients and simply exist as a companion. "Basically, I rent myself out. My job is to be wherever my…

Typhoon Hinnamnor made landfall in South Korea early Tuesday, causing power outages and leaving one person missing, but with few early reports of major damage as it headed back to sea. The typhoon, one of the most powerful to bear down on the country in decades, hit the country's southern…

Defence Minister Singh is on a five-day visit to Mongolia and Japan beginning Monday

Japanese prosecutors arrested two officials at a sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday as part of a widening bribery investigation that media said involved a former member of the Tokyo 2020 board.

(Corrects paragraph 30 to show Center for Financial Stability is based in New York, not London)