As president of the International Criminal Court based in The Hague, Tomoko Akane lives by a simple rule: “Villains must be ...

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WASHINGTON—More than three months after Min Zin, a U.S. scholar of Myanmar politics, was detained in China, his wife made a ...

Tucked away in an ordinary residential neighborhood in Saitama Prefecture sits a nondescript prefabricated warehouse.

The Paris Olympics in 2024 involved 10,700 athletes. The Asian Games will open Saturday in Nagoya, Japan, with more than ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

BANGKOK—Myanmar’s military-backed government has deported Adam Castillo, a U.S. businessman and former president of the ...

BEIJING—AI is not a “monopoly of great powers” and the U.S. should work with China to manage risk to create a ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retained most members of the Liberal Democratic Party’s senior leadership lineup on Sept. 16, ...

In January, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani took office as mayor of New York City, heralding a new era in the city’s ...

WASHINGTON—The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, a remarkable revelation ...

NAHA—Genta Koja became the first Okinawa governor elected after expressing unconditional support for plans to relocate the ...