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That's another way to say that foreigner already become significant contributor of residential tax and pension, even without ...

Asian shares retreated Tuesday despite the big lift in overseas markets from optimism over AI technology, as traders sold shares to lock in recent profits. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 1.7% to ...

China said Monday it will extend its visa-free arrangement for short-term Japanese visitors until the end of 2026 to further facilitate personnel exchanges, following a recent agreement between the ...

President Donald Trump sees tariffs — or the threat of them — as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will. He has used them in an unprecedented way, not only as the underpinning of his economic ...

Microsoft has entered into a $9.7 billion cloud services contract with artificial intelligence cloud service provider IREN that will give it access to some of Nvidia's chips. The five-year deal, which ...

Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households including those without solar panels under an energy-saving programme that is expected to go live in 2026, energy ...

Jamie Melham became only the second woman jockey to win the Aus$10 million (U.S.$6.5 million) Melbourne Cup Tuesday, steering Half Yours to victory in Australia's "race that stops a nation". The ...

Japan's government will compile a comprehensive set of measures to address issues related to foreign residents and tourists in January, its top spokesperson said Tuesday, as its ministers met to ...

Starbucks announced Monday it will sell a controlling stake in its Chinese retail operations to investment firm Boyu Capital in a deal valuing the business at around $4 billion. Under the agreement, ...

Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army's top lawyer. Now she is behind bars and at the center of a scandal rocking the country after a bizarre sequence of events that ...

The co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party, the coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said that he will stop outsourcing work to a company headed by his secretary following a ...