Carlyle Group raised ¥430 billion ($2.8 billion) for its fifth Japan buyout fund, adding to signs of investor interest in the country despite a gloomy fundraising climate for private equity firms globally.
A government advisory panel on Tuesday stressed the need to strengthen Japan's fiscal resilience after the Bank of Japan ended its negative interest rate policy earlier this year.
ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter.
A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said, with one passenger on board dead and local media reporting multiple injuries.
Covering Cannes Film Festival from a distance is a complicated business. Films screening in competition are under strict embargo, so I’m having to interview Japanese Brazilian director Andre Hayato Saito without having watched his latest short, “Amarela.”
Japan has sent a defense official to the U.S. Navy to leverage on its experience for the development of a railgun, which uses electromagnetic force to fire bullets at high speeds, government sources said Tuesday.
We all know that moment, don’t we? When adolescent dreams of the life we wanted suddenly feel meaningless? When everyone around us seems to have their relationships and careers figured out while we’re still scrambling to understand ourselves?
As Dr. Sreyleak Luch drove to work on the morning of Feb. 8, through busy sunbaked streets in Cambodia’s Mekong river delta, she played the overnight voice messages from her team. The condition of a 9-year-old boy she had been caring for had deteriorated sharply, and he had been intubated, one doctor reported. What, she wondered, could make the child so sick, so fast?
Taiwanese lawmakers shouted each other down Tuesday in a rambunctious parliamentary session, indicating the troubles ahead for newly appointed President Lai Ching-te.
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by a foreign woman who claimed to have been subject to discriminatory treatment by police.
Experts from around the globe kicked off their two-day discussions for nuclear arms reduction in Yokohama on Tuesday, with the impact of artificial intelligence on the agenda.
New Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has pledged to build on the foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, Tsai ing-wen, ramping up cooperation with partners such as the U.S. and Japan while trying to maintain a fragile status quo with China — but this is sure to prove challenging.
Police on Tuesday issued fresh warrants for the arrests of two men over the alleged murder of a couple whose burned bodies were found in Tochigi Prefecture.
Local government leaders from Japan and China are interacting with each other actively even as state-level exchanges between the two Asian countries remain almost halted, amid continuing diplomatic tensions including over Taiwan and China's ban on seafood imports from Japan.
China on Tuesday scolded South Korean and Japanese lawmakers for visiting Taiwan despite its strong opposition, chiding both neighbors for attending Taiwan's "so-called inauguration ceremony of the leader."
The FBI cut ties to at least a handful of informants and issued warnings about dozens of others after an internal review prompted by concerns that they were linked to Russian disinformation, current and former U.S. officials said.
A surge in thefts targeting luxury sport utility vehicles, such as Toyota Land Cruisers, has prompted police and customs officials to urge owners to take preventative measures. Stolen vehicles are often illegally exported, leading authorities to call for increased vigilance.
Donald Trump raised more money last month than Joe Biden for the first time in this election cycle, but the president’s campaign still holds a wide financial edge over his Republican rival.
A proposed revision to Japan’s immigration law that will allow the government to revoke a foreign national's permanent resident status if the holder deliberately fails to pay taxes cleared the Lower House on Tuesday.
Researchers at Kyoto University say they have developed a method to create “near-indefinite” volumes of early-stage sperm and egg cells from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, in a step that could potentially lead to new infertility treatments.
In their three years in power, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his equally hard-line foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, did everything they could to consolidate the "Axis of Resistance” against the United States and Israel.
After several delays, a large mesh barrier was finally put up on Tuesday at a popular viewing spot for Mount Fuji — in front of a convenience store in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture — to deter photo-taking by an ever-growing number of tourists.
Tokyo and Seoul will look to reach a deal on measures to prevent a reoccurrence of a 2018 incident in which a South Korean warship directed its fire control radar at a Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol plane, sources have said, providing a boost to bilateral defense ties.
The Noto Peninsula earthquake has triggered a severe outflow of young people, leaving the region struggling to rebuild. Local residents are increasingly concerned that there will be no one left to carry out the lengthy “creative reconstruction” that Ishikawa Prefecture is aiming for.
Norinchukin Bank is considering raising ¥1.2 trillion ($7.7 billion) to boost capital and cover losses arising from a plan to get rid of low-yielding foreign bonds, a person familiar the matter said.