BANGKOK--Vietnam’s top security official To Lam was confirmed Wednesday as the nation's new president. He oversaw police and ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s opposition to legalizing separate surnames for married couples is shared by only 24 percent ...

An act of vandalism that toppled 58 historic gravestones at the final resting place of prisoners who died building modern ...

A high court ruled that the current limitations of choosing either male or female descriptors in Japan’s family registration ...

Poet Mudo Hashimoto (1903-1974) couldn’t be happier living in a “nagaya” (traditional Japanese one-story terraced house) in ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said May 11 it will build a fourth vehicle assembly plant in India that will raise total annual production capacity to about 500,000 units in the world’s third-largest auto market.

In response to opposition party demands, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she has directed her government to consider new ...

Japan is set to face a shortage of around 1 million medical and welfare service workers in 2040, when the country’s elderly ...

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of ...

Woven City, Toyota Motor Corp.’s experimental smart community here where residents try out futuristic technologies, opened a development hub called Inventor Garage in April.

At least 76,941 people died alone at home across Japan in 2025, and 22,222 of them were not found until at least eight days ...

Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones ...