Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday acknowledged fear in Canada's Sikh community but underscored the "rule of law" after three arrests in connection with last year's killing of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver.
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Sunday announced a bid to host the 60th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in Japan in 2027.
Nearly 50% of investments made through the new Nippon Individual Savings Account, or NISA, program went to Japanese stocks from January through March, a survey has shown.
Final arrangements are under way to hold a summit among Japan, China and South Korea in Seoul on May 26 and 27, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida outlined his vision for Japan's ties with Latin America in a speech Saturday that capped off visits to Brazil and Paraguay as Tokyo looks to deepen relations with emerging and developing nations while trying to counter China’s growing clout in the resource-rich region.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke to Japanese-Brazilians during a welcoming ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, on Saturday.
A projection mapping show using a skyscraper held every night by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has attracted about 130,000 visitors since its launch at the end of February.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Sunday that he plans to meet with lawmakers from his ruling Liberal Democratic Party immediately following his trip abroad to discuss how to revise a political funds law amid a scandal roiling the LDP.
As India’s general election enters its second month, most conventional expectations have already been upended.
Theater students from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) are traveling to Japan in June to stage a rare English-language kabuki production at a classic playhouse in Gifu Prefecture, as a homecoming for a kabuki tradition taken to the Pacific islands by Japanese immigrants in the 19th century.
Donald Trump's pledge to fight what he calls "anti-white feeling" in the U.S. will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life.
With Japan in the midst of the Golden Week holiday, volunteer activities are in full swing in areas hit by the Jan. 1 earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture's Noto Peninsula.
Diagnosed with autism, Shoko Sakuma used to struggle working in accounting, but now she is putting her childhood love of drawing to work in a special Japanese animation studio.
Labour wins in the U.K.’s two biggest cities completed a string of local election successes by opposition leader Keir Starmer that showed his party firmly on course for victory at a general election later this year.
French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for an update of the country’s economic ties with China, just as the country’s leader Xi Jinping is expected to travel to France for a state visit.
Warren Buffett assured Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday that the executives expected to succeed him were ready for the job, and he heaped praise on Apple although Berkshire trimmed its position in the iPhone maker.
A few years ago, researchers made the unnerving discovery that in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, disordered clumps of abnormal proteins had been growing for 15 or even 20 years before their diagnosis. That means these pathological-looking deposits are silently accumulating in the brains of millions of seemingly healthy individuals in their 50s and 60s.
A senior Hamas official on Saturday said the group would not accept a truce that did not completely end the Gaza war, accusing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of "personally hindering" a deal.
After black pepper, mustard is the most-consumed spice in the United States. Outside of condiments and pickling, however, it’s sparsely used.