The number of foreign tourists visiting Japan has hit an all-time high, but this milestone has yet to deliver equal benefits ...

The Osaka High Court ruled on Dec. 18 that the Japanese government was not responsible for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power ...

Tsuneo Watanabe, the chief of Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings who wielded enormous influence in politics and Japanese professional ...

SINGAPORE--Asian stocks slid, bond yields rose and the dollar was perched near a two-year high on Thursday after the U.S.

November, and wild boar dishes are now being served at restaurants in the Tanbasasayama city area of Hyogo Prefecture.

Early risers across Kagoshima Prefecture and other parts of western Japan spotted a fiery object slowly splitting apart as it traveled across the predawn sky around 4 a.m. on Dec. 19.

WASHINGTON--China is expanding its nuclear force, has increased military pressure against Taiwan and has strengthened its ...

KITA-KYUSHU—Police on Dec. 19 arrested an unemployed man in connection with a stabbing attack at a McDonald’s restaurant here ...

Belarus has detained a second Japanese national who was reportedly filming a road, the Japanese Embassy in Belarus announced ...

Maika Isogawa, a former performer with the famed Cirque du Soleil, has made a remarkable transition from the glamorous ...

KYOTO--One stone statue of an enlightened Buddhist person here cradles a cat in its arms while another holds a book inscribed ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday visited a mausoleum for his late father and grandfather Kim Jong Il and Kim ...