William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." ...

Most people may know Baymax as the huggable healthcare companion robot from Disney’s Big Hero 6, but the comic version of the character couldn’t be more different. Baymax was built by the Japanese boy ...

President Trump on Wednesday said he would be sending letters to over 150 countries as he plans a barrage of duties to take ...

The United Kingdom is moving forward on plans to lower the voting age to 16, as well as other changes to voting and the ...

THE NEW GOP: President Donald Trump’s agenda keeps steamrolling through Capitol Hill, as skeptical Republicans repeatedly set aside their qualms and join with MAGA loyalists to hand the White House ...

Governments that want to compete with China or the US cannot continue on their existing path. They need to do something ...

This comes after China had earlier in April imposed tighter export controls on rare earth magnets — critical components for ...

A common theme running through these global developments is that rivals such as China seem to be faring better in dealing ...

Opposition parties argue that cutting or scrapping the consumption tax would support growth and ease strains on households after three years of consumer price inflation above the Bank of Japan’s 2 per ...

A populist party surging in the polls ahead of Sunday’s national elections in Japan has denied any ties to Moscow after one ...

Throughout the spring, Ishiba battled to reach a deal on the government’s budget and to assuage concerns among the public ...

In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin ...