South Korean and Japanese leaders vow to improve ties in face of global uncertainty

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday pledged to strengthen ties ...

Chinese outlet lashes out at Japanese prime minister, escalating row

Less than a month since Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk, became Japan’s prime minister, the complicated relationship between Tokyo and Beijing is beginning to sour.

Disney+’s Luke Kang on Scaling Japan, Korea Originals and ESPN’s Asia Pacific Expansion: ‘Great Stories Will Travel Beyond Borders’

Disney is ramping up its local content investments in Japan and Korea as it enters a new phase of scaled production, while ...

Third of donated Japanese mpox vaccines going to waste in Congo amid storage challenge

Around a third of mpox vaccines donated by Japan to the Democratic Republic of Congo are being wasted because they cannot be ...
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Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...