NEW TAIPEI/KAOHSIUNG -- Taiwanese electronics supplier Yageo says its acquisition of Japanese peer Shibaura Electronics would be a "win-win" for the makers of passive components used in everything ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea's internet was hit by a major outage that lasted several hours on Saturday, knocking off connections to government websites and official news services, and severing the ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Thailand has reinforced its military presence along a disputed border with Cambodia, following an increase in troops on the other side, Thailand's defense minister said on ...

More than 10,000 trading card enthusiasts attended Bandai’s two-day "One Piece" event in Dallas, Texas, in March. TOKYO -- Global appetite for Japanese trading cards continues to grow, with July ...

Terra Drone, a Japanese maker of unmanned aerial vehicles, in late May replaced conventional plastic airframe covers with a new biocomposite material. Fibers for making the material come from dregs ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to let rare earth ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Japan and the United States have yet to find common ground on tariff issues but still aim to strike a deal of some sort in mid-June, Japan's chief tariff negotiator said Friday.

KITAMI, Japan -- Far from the flash and fame of Japan's megacities, the Okhotsk region of Hokkaido, the most northerly of Japan's four main islands, sits quiet and unassuming along the coast of its ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was flown back to the United States to face criminal charges of ...

HONG KONG -- Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was charged on Friday with another national security offense: conspiring to collude with foreign countries or external elements to ...

TEL AVIV (AP) -- Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. The Prime Minister's office said Saturday that the body of Nattapong Pinta was returned to ...

But asked if another meeting could spur progress, Balakrishnan said, "Time has moved on since the past seven years, and ...