NEW YORK -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as his choice for Treasury secretary. "Scott is widely respected as one of the World's foremost ...

TOKYO -- Japanese retail investors who have mastered the art of forex trading -- collectively known as "Mrs. Watanabe" -- are getting old, with more than half in their 50s. This means in three decades ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- In early October, people watching television coverage of catastrophic floods in northern Thailand and neighboring countries were shocked by video footage of elephants ...

NEW YORK -- New York City and Tokyo will strengthen business and economic ties under an agreement inked Friday, including by helping startups in each city expand into the other.

According to the prospectus released Friday, the IPO and secondary-offering prices will likely be set at 1,390 yen, for an ...

(Reuters) -- Chinese hackers are positioning themselves in U.S. critical infrastructure IT networks for a potential clash with the United States, a top American cybersecurity official said on Friday.

TOKYO -- Japan's Nippon Life Insurance and Dai-ichi Life Insurance are keeping a close eye on how financial markets will be ...

Good evening. What happened in Sri Lanka last Thursday is quite thought-provoking in terms of analyzing Asian politics. My apologies for returning to the topic of elections yet again in a newsletter, ...

At 78, Trump is the oldest person to be elected president in U.S. history and will return to the White House next January to take over from Joe Biden after four years out of office. When Malaysia's ...

Daiwa Securities Group has agreed to buy a stake of more than 10% in unlisted Osaka-based software developer Sky for roughly 10 billion yen ($65 million), the Japanese fi ...

BANGKOK/TOKYO -- As Nissan Motor restructures its troubled operations in Thailand, Chinese competitors are chipping away at the Japanese automaker's dealership network. Nissan plans to cut or relocate ...

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." For all the chatter about China dreading Donald Trump's ...