. . RIO DE JANEIRO -Michael Phelps claimed his second gold medal in one night and the 21st of his career as the United States won...
 .  . TOKYO/WASHINGTON – Japan warned China on Tuesday that ties were deteriorating over disputed East China Sea islets, and China’s envoy in Tokyo reiterated...
. . TOKYO – Japan’s Emperor Akihito said Monday his advancing age and weakening health mean he may no longer be able to carry out his...
. . RIO DE JANEIRO – With a limited budget, the consequence of a biting recession that roiled preparations for South America’s first Olympics, Brazil laced...
. . TOKYO – Japan’s Emperor Akihito will issue a rare video message to the public Monday amid speculation he wants to abdicate in the coming...
. . BANGKOK – The rest of the world may think Americans eat a lot of burgers, have huge shopping malls and are ruled by an...
. . BANGKOK -Thailand’s Immigration police paraded 62-year-old Japanese National Yasuo Tsubaki before a news briefing at their Bangkok office on Friday after he fled 4-billion-baht...
. . ULAANBAATAR – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday that his country should stop interfering and hyping up the...
. . BEIJING – China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea and said it had the right...
. . THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A tribunal ruled in a sweeping decision Tuesday that China has no legal basis for its extensive claims in the...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has ordered the Finance Ministry to study tax incentives to spur the private sector to hire...
. . DHAKA – Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant to end a hostage-taking by heavily armed Islamic State militants early Saturday, killing six of...
. . LONDON – Millions of Britons voted Thursday in a bitterly-fought, knife-edge referendum that could pull the island nation out of the EU and spark...
. . OKINAWA – A Chinese observation ship shadowed the U.S. aircraft carrier John C. Stennis in the Western Pacific on Wednesday, the carrier’s commander said,...
. TOKYO – A 7-year-old Japanese boy who disappeared nearly a week ago after his parents left him on the side of a mountain road to...
. . TOKYO – Donald Trump appears to be finding some friends in North Korea, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee has been getting good press...
. . TOKYO – President Barack Obama at press conference Thursday from the G-7 summit in Japan, urged the Democrats to focus attacks less on each...
. KYUSHU – A 6.5-magnitude quake struck the island of Kyushu, about 550 miles southwest of Tokyo yesterday, bringing down buildings, killing at least nine people and...
. . PYONGYANG (Reuters) – North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, as...
. SOUTH CHINA SEA – China’s Military has deployed a battery of surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island under its control in the South China...