The number of public baths, known as “sento,” in the capital almost halved in the past 15 years, with 462 operating as of December 2022, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government. The figure has ...

TAIPEI—In a key security appointment, the former top uniformed officer of the Self-Defense Forces has been appointed as a ...

Japan and Indonesia agreed to enhance cooperation on maritime security with an eye on China’s growing assertiveness in ...

Family cover-ups and media silence helped enable showbiz guru and sexual deviant Johnny Kitagawa to abuse perhaps hundreds of ...

The National Police Agency is reviewing the “very easy” procedure of converting foreign driver’s licenses into Japanese ones ...

Shigeto Fujiwara is one of the dwindling number of World War II veterans who are still around to share their battlefield ...

A smelting furnace exploded Sunday at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast have signed a formal ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s parliamentary group in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly said on Jan. 23 that more than half of ...

South Korea is promoting its defense industry and increasing arms exports under the stated goal of “becoming one of the top ...

In a hugely significant policy shift for pacifist Japan, the government approved revisions that will allow for the export of ...

Tokyo police have made arrests over a drunken driving joyride in an illegally modified vehicle disguised as an unmarked police car, complete with a flashing red light and a siren.