Japan’s salary and benefits packages for expats remained the highest in Asia, a new report has found. The average expatriate package in Japan costs employers $370,183, according to “MyExpatriate Market Pay” survey by data company ECA International. That’s however 12%...
Germany is gearing up to simplify its procedures for exporting defense equipment to South Korea from next month amid intensifying rivalry between the United States and China in the Indo-Pacific. On August 2, Seoul’s arms procurement agency announced the intentions of Berlin to...
TOKYO (AP) — A meandering storm was headed again toward southwestern Japan on Sunday, prompting fresh warnings about dangerously heavy rainfall after the same area was hit several days ago. Tropical Storm Khanun, which means jackfruit in Thai, was returning to the southernmost group of...
The latest numbers on Japan’s population trend make for dismal reading — the number of people who died in 2022 (1.56 million) was roughly twice as high as the number of births (771,000). Based on residency registrations, the country’s Internal Ministry...
MANILA – While France has been vocal in its support for the 2016 arbitral tribunal ruling that invalidated China’s claim over most of the South China Sea, the French ambassador in Manila did not directly answer whether they would support the Philippines should it raise before the UN...
