Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text.

The Japanese government has warned its ministries and agencies to refrain from using artificial intelligence developed by the ...

Smile-Up Inc. has sued victims of sexual abuse by show-business mogul Johnny Kitagawa, arguing that the company should not be ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

WASHINGTON--President Donald Trump said Friday he wants to slash the U.S. trade deficit with Japan as he welcomed Japanese ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Nippon Steel would no longer buy U.S. Steel as planned, but the Japanese company would instead invest in the symbolically important American ...

KYOTO--A young community band leader from Borneo nervously accepted the baton from the music maestro at a high school here.

The Japan Meteorological Agency extended its heavy snowfall warning to around Feb. 9, mainly on the Sea of Japan side, after ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Japan stands by its policy of supporting a “two-state solution” for the ...

BANGKOK--China’s leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam ...

HONG KONG--Asian shares Friday were mixed, with Chinese technology stocks rising as most other Asian equities declined.

The widow of a Finance Ministry bureaucrat said the government’s decision not to challenge a court ruling concerning ...