YOKOHAMA—High school baseball pitching sensation Shoki Oda has scouts in Japan and the United States salivating over his ...

BANGKOK—China’s new airfield in Laos is a work in progress, with satellite imagery showing many areas where construction ...

OSAKA—A projection mapping show celebrating the longstanding friendship between Japan and Italy began at Osaka Castle here on ...

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 ...

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over reports that her aide was involved in posting videos on social media to disparage her rivals in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test of new surface-to-sea missiles and warned that the country would take a more aggressive military posture in disputed sea boundaries with ...

While the rate for men who took paternity leave in Japan hit a record high in the last fiscal year, only about two in 10 ...

KANUMA, Tochigi Prefecture—Four railway workers died on Aug. 20 after being struck by a Spacia X limited express train while clearing vegetation near Shin-Kanuma Station on the Tobu Nikko Line in ...

Japan’s labor force population reached a record high 70.04 million in 2025, buoyed by the continued influx of seniors, women and foreign nationals in the job market, an internal affairs ministry ...

MANILA--Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons on Sunday and rammed and slightly damaged an anchored ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum reopened here on April 23 following year-long renovations to bring the behemoth World War II battleship closer to real life based on the latest research.

NANTAN, Kyoto Prefecture—Police here rearrested a man on suspicion of murder after he admitted to strangling his adopted son in a public restroom, enraged that the boy said he wasn’t his real father, ...