KOBE, Japan (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed 6,434 people, with the government stepping up ...

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 ...