TOKYO -- In the three decades since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters will be unequipped to accommodate at least 530,000 evacuees if a similar disaster were to occur ...

Friday marks the 30th year since the Jan. 17, 1995, earthquake shook the Osaka-Kobe area, killing more than 4,000 people and destroying 400,000 buildings. The region is located adjacent the Nankai ...

NEW YORK -- President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, voiced support Thursday for an ...

ISLAMABAD -- In August 2021, Pakistan celebrated the takeover of Kabul by the Afghan Taliban. "Afghanistan has broken the ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Japan's NGK Insulators will make more components for chipmaking equipment in the U.S., seeing an opportunity to build up its semiconductor-related business. NGK subsidiary FM ...

TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan's long-term quantitative and qualitative easing measures since 2013 had the side effect of loosening fiscal discipline, 64% of respondents said in a new Nikkei poll of ...

BANGKOK/LONDON/FRANKFURT, Germany -- Thai conglomerate Central Group is revamping its department store business in Europe ...

TAIPEI -- Taipei's top China affairs official has warned that the government will not tolerate Beijing's active engagement solely with opposition politicians while it refuses dialogue with President ...

Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California, and an adjunct professor ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- China will launch an investigation into U.S. government subsidies to its semiconductor sector over ...

NEW DELHI -- Suzuki Motor, the parent of India's biggest automaker, is out to take the lead in electric-vehicle market share ...