Southeast Asia emerged as a favored destination for Chinese tourists during this year's Spring Festival holiday, drawing substantial visitor flows diverted from Japan, several travel agencies told the ...

We start in Japan, where Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi yesterday picked two dovish academics for roles at the country’s central bank. Here’s what you need to know.

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For more than a decade, China has treated rare earths as instruments of strategic influence. That leverage, however, may now ...

If that successor is a Democrat, the instinct may be to revive the alliance framework that existed during the Cold War. But that would be the wrong approach. The world has changed since Washington ...

The World Baseball Classic is not just a tournament; it is a high-stakes, emotion-fueled battleground where national pride is ...

That may be partly fueled by China’s reopening post-Covid, which included relaxing some visa policies and encouraging more tourism – as well as the great migration of social media users to China’s ...

South Korea's birthrate rose for a second straight year in 2025, government data showed on Wednesday, in a further sign that ...

It has been three years of tormented hope. Global Firepower (GFP), a U.S.-based private military power evaluation platform, announced in its “2026 Military Power Ranking” report that “South Korea is ...

U.S. Forces Korea rejected a South Korean request to reschedule a trilateral aerial exercise with Japan, according to local media reports, amid sensitivities over a Japanese holiday tied to disputed ...

And the United States’ vested interest in its allies’ security offered assurance to Japan and other countries that they would be protected if conflict came to their shores. National security leaders ...