The Japanese Embassy in Belarus says the court hearing was held behind closed doors on Friday at a court in Minsk. The embassy's request to observe was denied. Nakanishi Masatoshi had worked as a ...

Polish upper-house Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (right) and Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (left) hold a joint news conference in Warsaw on Thursday.Photo: PAP ...

Minsk and Moscow have dismissed accusations ... said on the private television TVN24. The Russian embassy in Warsaw, contacted by Reuters, said it had no information on the matter.

A project manager in Belarus's once-flourishing tech industry, Andrei Dorin admits his sector is in "crisis". Thousands of programmers have moved abroad because of stepped-up political repression and ...

Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik met with Chief Executive Officer of the Russian company Transmashholding (TMH) Kirill Lipa to discuss the development of industrial cooperation.

The Mission of Japan to NATO said Wednesday it has become independent of the Japanese Embassy in Brussels. The move is intended to boost security cooperation between Japan and NATO and to promote ...

Belarusians will go to the polls for “presidential elections,” an event seen by many as a “sham,” a “no-choice election” (bezvybory), and little more than a ritual for Aliaksandr Lukashenka, who has ...

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

A record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck southwest Japan on Monday, the country's Meteorological Agency has said. The earthquake hit at 9.19 pm local time (3:19 pm CET), it added. Tsunami warnings were ...

TOKYO/KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is set to visit Malaysia and Indonesia from Thursday to Sunday, just days before the return of Donald Trump to the U.S ...

TOKYO – Record numbers of tourists flocked to Japan in 2024, figures showed on Jan 15, as the weak yen bolstered the appeal of the “bucket list” destination despite overcrowding complaints ...