Kishida said on Monday the government would not add wage growth as a new policy goal for the Bank of Japan, but would devise ways to prop up wages with the central bank.

The strike has seen container traffic at ports drop 19% and the country’s cement industry estimates its suffered an $28 million output loss

The plan for Japan and Britain to develop a fighter jet together may led to Tokyo easing its military export rules, MPs have said

The core consumer price index in the Japanese capital was 3.6% higher in November than a year earlier. This was the highest since April 1982.

President says the strike is holding the national supply chain "hostage" during an economic crisis, which is "unacceptable". Logistics disruptions have hit several sectors already.

The Nikkei newspaper reported that the Bank of Japan will begin experiments on a digital yen launch with commercial banks next spring

China's defence minister met his US counterpart on Tuesday to discuss Taiwan, the South China Sea, as well as crises in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula.

The company said on Tuesday it will invest more than $3 billion to build a battery cathode factory in Tennessee. The cathodes will use NCMA chemistry, which is largely nickel and other metals

The island’s export orders slumped 6.3% in October from a year earlier to $55.4 billion, surprising analysts who’d expected a drop of 1%

Plans for the new facility in Arizona are not completely finalised but it will produce advanced 3-nanometre chips, founder Morris Chang said on Monday. He plans to attend the launch.

TSMC envoy Morris Chang, who was Taiwan's envoy at the summit in Bangkok, said his warm words with Xi were his own idea and he just offered his "own opinion".

Taiwan’s parliament is likely to review technology transfers to mainland China because of fears that leaked advancements could undermine the island’s critical tech sector