JAPAN

Fortune cookies aren’t Chinese, Gyros aren’t Greek and Cinco de Mayo isn’t Mexico’s Independence Day. Let’s set the record straight.

Cricket-loving Australians are about to get a taste of Major League Baseball when the 2014 opening series arrives in Sydney next year.

India's privately owned telegram service, BSNL, announced this week that telegrams will soon become extinct in India.

A recent study claims the Pacific Coast, mainly British Columbia, is due to experience a high magnitude, megathrust earthquake.

The most foreign investment in the European Union by far still comes from the U.S., figures for 2012 show.

Eyeball licking has become a growing sexual trend among teenagers in Japan that has led to the spread of diseases and eye injuries.

The upcoming G-8 summit in Ireland will focus on central bank policy, tax evasion and free trade.

The global party may be ending. Investors dump stocks on concern the U.S. will stop shoveling cheap money into the markets.

Persisting doubts about the Fed’s next move and disappointment over Shinzo Abe’s recent policies sent Asian stocks to fresh lows on Thursday.

The World Bank cut its growth outlook for 2013 and described the global economic recovery as "hesitant and uneven.”

Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson has been named the new face of Dior Homme fragrance.

A look ahead to the FIFA Confederations Cup, which gets underway in Brazil on Saturday.

The fact that two of the oldest people on the planet are both Japanese is not a coincidence.

Israel generic drug producer Teva will pay Pfizer $1.6 billion in a new patent dispute settlement announced Wednesday.

The Japanese auto giant expects to take 14.4 percent of all U.S. vehicles sales this year, slightly less than in 2012.

The owner of Zara reports tepid growth in its 1Q just weeks after reporting robust profit growth for the past full year.

U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open on Wednesday ahead of the federal budget report for May.

Two Japanese carriers cancelled three Boeing 787 services, less than two weeks since they were back in the air.

The National Space Society and India have agreed to collaborate on the creation of an international organization to generate solar power in space.

Knight Frank's Global House Price Index shows 35 of 55 markets tracked increase, but Europe remains weak.

Japan experienced an explosion of investment in solar energy after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown.