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Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019

Seoul is undertaking reforms to counter the so-called ‘Korea discount’ dragging down the valuations of its firms.

While the fortunes of many pure EV companies are heading south, Japanese automakers - with their emphasis on hybrid vehicles - are raking in the money. Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, recently reported an annual operating profit of $32 billion, the first time any Japanese company reached that threshold. It…

At its European Technology Symposium last week TSMC revealed some of the details about its Global Gigafab Manufacturing program, the company's strategy to replicate its manufacturing processes across its multiple gigafab sites. The need for large-scale multi-national fabs to have a process in place to replicate their facilities is well-documented…

There's no one in the metal scene quite like Paledusk right now

Studio Ghibli, the renowned Japanese animation studio co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, has captivated audiences worldwide with its visually stunning and thematically rich films. In recent years, they have decided to take some of these stories to the stage.

Japanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.

Shiro Kuramata designed hundreds of bars in his lifetime, but few remain intact. Now fans are making a pilgrimage to Comblé Bar in Shizuoka

Japan’s trade deficit in April grew nearly 8% from a year earlier as the weak yen boosted the cost of imports, offsetting a jump in exports

At age 40, Japanese competitive breakdancer Ayumi Fukushima has been busting moves for longer than some of her rivals have been alive.

Holidaymakers were behaving appallingly around a convenience store that offers an Instagrammable view of the mountain – until residents blocked the cameras