much like Germany did after WWII, or is it doomed to long-term decline? While Germany and Japan rebuilt into economic powerhouses, Russia faces unique challenges - from corruption and brain drain ...

an official at Japan's agriculture ministry said on Monday. The ban took effect on Friday after Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry ...

This is the tragic reality of how Japan confronts its wartime history. Year after year ... eager to forge a bulwark against communism, rebuilt Japan as its frontline ally, implementing the ...

Britain’s ban on ninja swords has sparked a debate in Japan on knife ownership and whether ... It was introduced as Ronan’s Law, after 16-year-old Ronan Kanda, who was killed with a ninja ...

Twice Olympic triathlon medallist Hayden Wilde is recovering in a Japanese hospital with broken bones and injured lungs after a bike crash, the New Zealander said on social media. The 27-year-old ...

Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected ... as “national natural monuments” in Japan because of their cultural and scientific ...

Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement it lodged a “very severe protest” with Beijing after a Chinese helicopter took off from one of China’s four coast guard boats, which had ...

Japan's air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said Thursday.

Three Chinese men have been arrested in Japan after several thousand protected land hermit crabs were found in their suitcases as police investigate whether the suspects intended to sell or keep ...

A member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces hold objects believed to be debris from an Air Self-Defense Force trainer jet after they retrieved from a reservoir in Inuyama, central Japan, Thursday ...

As war clouds loom over South Asia and the two nuclear-power neighbours India and Pakistan are on the brink of what could be a full scale war, Japan has ... Backs Pakistan After India Launches ...

[TOKYO] Carlyle Group said it is on course to hire 10 investment professionals in Tokyo as it starts dealmaking for its latest 430 billion yen (S$3.8 billion) Japan buyout fund. The Washington-based ...