The Japanese government said that much more needs to be done to prepare for a possible "megaquake" to reduce the feared death toll of up to 300,000 people.

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in nearly ...

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration will press allies like Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands to comply more with U.S. export controls on China, preventing Beijing from accessing cutting ...

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Japan joined the World Bank in August 1952, the year after the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Starting in 1953, a number of projects were implemented in Japan with World Bank loans for the ...

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BEIJING -- China revised a public safety law on Friday to penalize anyone who wears or forces another person to wear clothing that glorifies "wars of ...

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BANGKOK – Thailand's embattled prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, will not resign or dissolve parliament, a senior official from the ruling Pheu Thai party said on Saturday, risking a ...

Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of trespassing and theft after he entered a female colleague's apartment with an unauthorized duplicate key and ...