Japan should eventually reduce, rather than raise, its cap on foreign workers under a visa program designed to fill labor shortages, Kimi Onoda, minister of policy on foreign nationals, said Nov. 2.

SEOUL—North Korea on Tuesday dismissed as “absurd rhetoric” US allegations that it was behind a $6 billion ⁠cryptocurrency heist on the Binance platform, saying they ⁠proved Washington remained ...

The United States has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said Monday, on the eve of crucial midterm elections.

Japan’s government issued a warning Friday for increased vigilance against cyberattacks, which are rising in number and becoming more sophisticated. The National Cybersecurity Office, which was set up ...

KUALA LUMPUR—Myanmar’s military-backed leader pressed on with his pivot to diplomacy on a visit to Malaysia, his first since becoming president earlier this year, holding talks Thursday with the ...

GMO Internet Group Inc. failed to detect a cyberattack on a subsidiary’s service for about two and a half months, enabling the intruder to steal files from customers’ computers, the company revealed ...

Under the autumn sky, a woman in “monpe” traditional loose work trousers glances at the newspaper that runs the text of the newly promulgated Constitution of Japan.

SEOUL―South Korea’s exports nearly doubled in October, the sharpest jump in ‌more than 50 years, as robust global ⁠demand for ...

May, at a training area inside Camp Schwab, a U.S. military base in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, about 20 young Marines in camouflage uniforms were practicing drone operations in the sweltering heat. The ...

NAHA―New Okinawa Governor Genta Koja is jettisoning his predecessors’ insistence on removing Osprey transport helicopters from the island prefecture. Instead, he said on Oct. 16 that it was ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency apologized Oct. 16 after issuing an emergency warning for an earthquake that was erroneously estimated as the most powerful in recorded history. “We issued an emergency ...

SEOUL―The suspect ‌behind recent cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector may be ⁠a 26-year-old based in China’s Guangdong ⁠province who used a Chinese-developed AI agent tool called ...