LONDON—The British government on Thursday urged FIFA to investigate Argentina’s team after players celebrating their 2-1 win ...

The Diet passed three landmark bills on July 17 that were strongly pushed by Prime Minister Sanae Takachi that include ...

Tokyo-based crowdfunding company Ubugoe Inc. is withholding millions of yen in donations from at least six organizations that ...

The “Asuka-Fujiwara archaeological sites,” a collection of predominantly subterranean ruins in Nara Prefecture, are on track to become Japan’s newest UNESCO World Heritage site. The International ...

Annual deaths from COVID-19 continue to top 30,000 in Japan, even three years since the seriousness of the infectious disease was downgraded to the level of seasonal influenza. Elderly people are most ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI—Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister said on Thursday his government has decided to close Taiwan’s ...

A final piece of the construction puzzle has been approved for the ultra-high-speed Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line project, ...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike signed an agreement with New York University here on July 14 to explore establishing a ...

Stanford University slugger Rintaro Sasaki will sign with the Miami Marlins, spurning a far more lucrative contract to play ...

SEOUL—A South Korean court on Monday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to two years in prison for illegally receiving ...

BEIJING--China has expelled Ma ‌Xingrui, a former Politburo member, from the ruling Communist Party ⁠on corruption charges, ...

MOSCOW—A U.S.-Russian space crew arrived Tuesday at the International Space Station after launching from the Russia-leased ...