The election result has potentially far reaching implications for the world’s third-largest economy and its relations with China.
Japanese voters were casting ballots in the parliamentary elections Sunday, which is expected to return to power former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), defeating current Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Democratic Party (DPJ) after just three years in office.
China has submitted to the U.N., a detailed report of its claims to a disputed region in the East China Sea extending beyond its exclusive economic zone recognized by the U.N.
U.S. and Chinese officials have been quick dismiss bilateral problems and are highlighting the potential and necessity of greater cooperation and trust. The pelting of the U.S. Ambassador's diplomatic vehicle has been quickly sidelined.
However bad the alleged Mayan Apocalypse gets, one farmer in China believes he has the perfect solution to any problem. Liu Qiyuan created seven so-called survival pods designed to weather all eventualities, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and even apocalypses.
In what seems to be a morbid trend in China's recent history, another mentally ill person violently attacked school children with a knife.
Xi Jinping, China's new commander in chief, ordered the People's Liberation Army to increase its "real combat" awareness.
Most of the Asian markets rose in the week as investor sentiment was lifted on hopes that the policymakers in Japan would soon announce stimulus measures to boost the growth of the world’s third-largest economy.
The state-owned newspaper China Daily is now printing its Africa Weekly, and its editors aren't shy about telling the West how they really feel.
Apple launched the iPhone 5 in 33 new countries today, including China, Turkey, Israel and Russia.
Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), the No. 1 provider of telecommunications equipment, secured $2.09 billion in new loans intended to keep it going.
A new survey predicts by 2020 Chinese and Indians will together buy more of the precious rock than Americans.
The U.S., Canada and the UK have refused to sign a U.N. treaty at the global telecommunications conference in Dubai.
The U.S. stock index futures signal a higher open ahead of the release of the Consumer Price Index for November.
Crude oil prices advanced in Asia Friday as sentiment was buoyed after a private survey showed an increase in China's manufacturing activity in December.
Asian stock markets mostly advanced Friday after a private survey showed a pickup in Chinese manufacturing activity in December.
China's manufacturing activity expanded to a 14-month high in December, according to the HSBC Purchasing Managers’ Index released Friday.
China's largest office building cost 4 billion yuan to construct, and is second largest in the world to the Pentagon. However, some Chinese believe this is a misuse of taxpayer money.
No one died when Chinese Muslims from the Xinjiang region tried unsuccessfully to hijack a plane in June, but they've been sentenced to death anyway.
PepsiCo's got a brand new bag: Lay's newest flavor of potato chips, Pepsi-Chicken Chips.
There are conflicting reports as to whether North Korea has full control of its satellite; the object could stay in orbit for months.
Airbus, Mitsubishi and Bombardier secured $15 billion worth of orders this week for greener, cheaper-to-fly jets.
