Taiwan has lifted restrictions on beef imports from Japan by eliminating the 30-month age limit for cattle. Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration announced the revision to import regulations on ...

The United Nations World Food Programme says that bakeries in parts of the Gaza Strip have resumed production, following the delivery of aid into the area for the first time in about two and a half ...

The latest opinion poll shows that the gap between the two leading candidates in South Korea's presidential election has narrowed significantly. The election is slated for June 3.

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has met with relatives of Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea. He pledged to make his utmost efforts to resolve the issue as soon as possible while ...

Japan's new agriculture minister Koizumi Shinjiro has pledged to tackle soaring rice prices as he officially takes over from ...

Reuters news agency says one of the images US President Donald Trump showed at the White House as evidence of white persecution in South Africa was actually taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A record surge in the price of rice drove Japan's consumer inflation higher in April. The country's staple crop nearly doubled in price compared to the same month a year earlier.

East Japan Railway Company says broken overhead wires were the likely cause for the trouble that led to a full suspension of the Yamanote Line loop railway service in central Tokyo on Friday morning.

Japan's Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, will visit Laos in November. The trip is expected to be her first official overseas visit.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump on Friday. Ishiba expressed his expectations for productive negotiations in the upcoming ministerial-level tariff ...

North Korea's law-enforcement authorities have reportedly begun procedures to investigate and restrain senior officials of a shipyard in relation to a failed warship launch earlier this week.

Japan's new agriculture minister, Koizumi Shinjiro, says he will take steps so rice from government stockpiles can be sold at retail stores from early June in the 2,000 yen range, or about 14 to 21 ...