No country embraces kitsch like Japan -- and that's not a bad thing, according to writer Stephen Mansfield. He says that the sniffy dictionary ... building in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest ...

Economists, conservative and liberal, have been saying that a trade war unleashed by Trump’s tariff regime will bring untold negative consequences to the world economy. Trump is determined to bring ...

In the 1980s, when Japan was filling container ships with ... “I always say ‘tariffs’ is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” So we shouldn’t have been surprised when, on ...

Japan will provide US$6 million in emergency aid to assist victims of the recent earthquake in Myanmar, its government said. The details of the aid will be coordinated with relevant international ...

The Japanese government has confirmed the first Japanese fatality in last month's 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday. The Japanese individual who had been ...

(Kyodo) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- In the wake of the rescue of two Japanese teens who had been lured into working for scam syndicates in Myanmar, concerns are growing that more youths may be drawn into ...

The 32-member disaster relief unit – comprising doctors, nurses and pharmacists – left the Japanese capital on Tuesday evening and arrived in Myanmar the next day. The mission came nearly five ...

Myanmar's military junta let a truce declared to spur aid efforts after last month's earthquake expire on Thursday, a ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will dispatch a Self-Defense Forces airplane carrying medicines and medical equipment to Myanmar, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Monday, as part of relief efforts to the ...

Tokyo, April 22 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Tuesday that he has ordered the Self-Defense Forces to end its disaster relief operations in Myanmar, a Southeast Asian ...

Caritas Japan, the Catholic Church’s social service arm in the country, and several humanitarian organizations are raising funds for the victims of last month’s devastating earthquake in Myanmar.

Myanmar people living in Japan have commemorated the victims of a massive earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28. The country's ruling military says more than 3,600 people were killed ...