TOKYO -- Talk of raising Japan's corporate tax is coming from both the ruling and opposition parties as one of the few funding sources they can agree on.

After the two leaders met in Alaska on Friday, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Putin had offered to freeze most front lines if Kyiv ceded all of Donetsk, the industrial region ...

TOKYO -- 7-Eleven parent Seven & i Holdings remains intent on a stock market listing for its American convenience store unit and will channel some of the proceeds into growth, Chairman Junro Ito said.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -- More than 300 people are dead in northwest Pakistan after two days of heavy rains and flash floods, local officials said on Saturday.

TOKYO -- Japan is looking to start domestic discussions on possible trade agreements with African countries, seeking to promote auto exports and other commerce, Nikkei has learned.

Zelenskyy said he would meet Trump in Washington on Monday, while Kyiv's European allies welcomed Trump's efforts but vowed to back Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia. The source said European ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese Foreign Ministry said Saturday it has lodged a "strong protest" with South Korea over suspected maritime research near islets in the Sea of Japan that are controlled by ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit India from Monday to Wednesday, China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday, for talks about a disputed border in the ...

In a major shift, Trump also said he had agreed with Putin that the best way to end the war was to go straight to a peace settlement -- not via a ceasefire, as Ukraine and its European allies, until ...

KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would travel to Washington on Monday for talks with Donald Trump, after the U.S. president's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- A new QR code standard backed by Myanmar's central bank is seeing widespread adoption in the Southeast Asian country, unifying codes from nearly a dozen mobile payment apps for ...

BANGKOK/SHANGHAI -- Chinese streaming services are catching American rivals in the Southeast Asian market, with giants iQiyi and Tencent planning to roll out original productions in Thailand and ...