Venezuelan Griselda Gonzalez had trouble sleeping on the night of Jan. 2 because of asthma. The 59-year-old lived on the ...

Director Takuya Uchiyama says his latest film, “Numb,” which centers around a neglected boy unable to speak, is somewhat autobiographical.

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

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

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

WASHINGTON—More than three months after Min Zin, a U.S. scholar of Myanmar politics, was detained in China, his wife made a direct plea on Wednesday to President Donald Trump, asking him to secure her ...

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 ...

OSAKA—A fleet of electric-powered buses used to shuttle attendees during the Osaka Kansai Expo now function more as an eyesore than an emblem in a “graveyard” estimated to be worth billions of yen.

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 ...

Japan will significantly tighten the financial and “national interest” requirements for foreign nationals seeking permanent residency, according to the Immigration Services Agency’s draft revision of ...

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 ...

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 ...