LOS ANGELES -- U.S. streaming giant Netflix is doubling down on anime, for which viewership has tripled since 2021, Minyoung Kim, vice president of content for Asia, told Nikkei.

TOKYO -- The Nippon Yusen group announced Thursday that it will acquire Movianto International, a Dutch company focused on health-care-related logistics, for about 1.25 billion euros ($1.45 billion).

TAICHUNG, Taiwan -- When veteran Kuomintang (KMT) lawmaker Fu Kun-chi boarded a plane bound for China with a delegation from his party a little over a year ago, the opposition coalition in Taiwan led ...

Bessent, one of the three top U.S. tariff negotiators, landed in Japan on Thursday night, his first visit to the country since taking office. After meeting with Ishiba, the secretary and his ...

The new facility, the company's second in the Philippines, was opened at a university in Marikina City near the capital. The program provides Japanese language courses and specialized curricula for ...

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." ...

TOKYO -- Prices of cobalt, used in electric-vehicle batteries, have soared since top exporter Congo halted exports, with some expecting the high prices to trigger a shift away from using the rare ...

TOKYO -- Now that Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn its bid to take over Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese parent of the 7-Eleven chain will face several tests in attaining ...

TOKYO -- Japanese pharmaceutical companies are ramping up investment to build a domestic supply chain for antibiotics, fueled ...

BRUSSELS/TOKYO -- Japan and the European Union will launch a new "economic two-plus-two" dialogue to bring together their ...

First Solar and three other manufacturers say companies in Indonesia, Laos and India are dumping solar cells in the U.S. market at prices below the cost of production, leaving domestic manufacturers ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. tariff revenues soared to $87.2 billion in the January-June half, government figures show, reaching a scale that could make it politically difficult to reduce or repeal them even ...