TOKYO -- A decade-long partnership between Chinese and Australian miners focused on rare-earth rights in Greenland is at risk of fracturing, just as U.S. President Donald Trump eyes control of the ...

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the ...

Iran plans a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial global shipping lane. The drill, scheduled for Sunday and Monday, could involve live fire in the area where a fifth of the world's traded ...

Japan and South Korea agreed Friday to resume a joint naval search and rescue exercise that was discontinued in 2017. Japan ...

Growing Japan-Philippines defense ties are linking the East China Sea and South China Sea. Philippine Foreign Secretary ...

Jewellery demand volumes declined y/y in all markets across the globe – unsurprising in the context of gold’s multiple all-time highs throughout 2025. Read more here.

China's coast guard patrolled Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea almost daily last year, it said on Friday, aiming to secure its sovereignty over the remote, rocky outpost and to deter ...

NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese court has awarded about $16.3 million to Okinawans affected by Kadena Air Base aircraft noise, the latest ruling in a long-running series of lawsuits over noise from U.S.

Some Japanese officials have been discreetly urging fisherman and local politician Hitoshi Nakama, and his peers, to steer ...

The US is ‘rediscovering’ Japan to pit it against its ancient enemy: China, which has not forgotten what Japan did to it in ...

FactCheck.org lays out claims President Trump made before announcing his “framework" of a deal on Greenland with NATO's ...

Europe remains the largest buyer of U.S. LNG, taking over half of American exports in 2025, but weak industrial demand and political tensions could cap further growth.