The top three U.S. carriers have announced bids for new slots at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport as part of a push to increase daily nonstop flights to the Japanese capital ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games and beyond.

Japan’s top steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal aims to boost crude steel output to nearly 11 million tons a quarter in the year from April 1, after system troubles cut production and its profit outlook this year, a senior executive said.

Sony Corp, which has fallen way behind its South Korean and Chinese rivals in the smartphone sales race, aims to capitalize on its movie pedigree with new devices featuring 21:9 ratio screens, the dimensions used to film blockbusters.

YouTube's year-in-review video is usually a celebration of video creators who upload free clips - sometimes wacky, sometimes personal, sometimes offensive - that the company then sells ads against.

Inconvenient things offer many rewards. That’s the message of Hiroshi Kawakami, a doctor of engineering, who preaches the benefits of inconvenience. His book gives a variety of examples that illustrate his theory.

A robot modeled after Kannon Bodhisattva and designed to explain the teachings of Buddha in plain terms was unveiled to the media at Kodaiji Temple in the city of Kyoto on Saturday.

Climate change threats — from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean — are a growing security risk and require concerted action to ensure they don’t spark new violence, security experts warned Tuesday.

Japanese doctor Yasushi Goto remembers prescribing the cancer drug Opdivo to an octogenarian and wondering whether taxpayers might object to helping fund treatment, which at the time cost millions of yen, for patients in their twilight years.

Residents of Japan's Okinawa cast ballots Sunday in a closely watched referendum on the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to a remote part of the island.

Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its HoloLens augmented reality headset on Sunday, promising wearers would feel more immersed in the augmented reality experience and more comfortable.

More than 70 percent of voters in Okinawa rejected a decades-old plan to relocate a U.S. air base within the prefecture in a referendum on Sunday, giving fresh impetus to the Okinawa government's attempt to stop the transfer.

Huawei Technologies unveiled a $2,600 folding smartphone on Sunday which it said was primed for next generation 5G mobile connections, even as the United States campaigns to bar the Chinese company from such networks over security concerns.