Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly ...

Typhoon No. 25 is expected to bring torrential rain to the Kanto-Koshin region on the afternoon of Sept. 21, and the Japan ...

An association of publishing companies is demanding an explanation from a major book distributor about its suspected sales of works to artificial intelligence development company Anthropic for ...

ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido—The highly awaited Golden Week reopening of one of Japan’s most popular zoos has been delayed after an employee reportedly told police he disposed of his wife’s body in an on-site ...

TAIPEI--Taiwan kicked off a five-day set of military drills on Monday aimed at boosting the island’s combat readiness in case of a Chinese military attack. In the city of Taoyuan, home to the island’s ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered 4-meter (13-foot) tsunami waves and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday.

Temperatures surged to the 40-degree range in central Japan on July 21 for the first time in Japan this year, as the nation continued to bake following the end of the rainy season. Gujo, Gifu ...

On July 21, the day after the pivotal Upper House election, a fervent crowd surged in front of Tokyo’s JR Shinbashi Station to hear the Sanseito party leader take a victory lap.

MOSCOW—Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it has made a formal protest to Japan over its decision to host ...

RIYADH—Yemen’s Houthis said they attacked “sensitive” sites in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday with missiles and drones, ...

Iwojima island, the stark volcanic outpost home to one of World War II’s fiercest battles, remains the site of an unfinished ...

Two of Japan’s top consumer electronics retailers announced on June 4 that they are considering a merger, which would dramatically reshape the industry amid a stagnating domestic market and ...