The development and production of capabilities for the Defense Ministry and the Self-Defense Forces’ “new way of warfare” ...

Japan’s first Disney-themed cruise liner, expected to be one of the nation’s largest passenger ships, has been christened the ...

Following a barrage of complaints from residents, all 23 wards of Tokyo have now introduced tougher regulations on “minpaku” ...

SoftBank’s promise to pay its highest-ever yields in a record $11 billion junk-bond offering highlights the pressure on CEO Masayoshi Son to secure returns on his all-in bet on AI amid concerns about ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering toward the main Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. The Japan ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced her second reshuffled Cabinet on Sept. 17 after personally reviewing questionnaires filled by Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on what posts they desired in ...

SEOUL--North Korea on Tuesday said South Korea’s plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with U.S. approval would trigger a “nuclear domino” effect. On Friday, South Korea and the U.S. jointly ...

NEW YORK—The yen jumped by more than 2% against the U.S. dollar on Thursday as traders ramped up bets on ‌a Bank of Japan interest rate hike, while analysts pointed to BOJ data showing ⁠no official ...

Keiko Kishi, the Japanese film star who shot to fame in the 1953 blockbuster “Kimi no Na wa” and went on to build an international acting career while earning acclaim as a writer, has died. She was 93 ...

SEOUL―North Korea said it had tested two types of submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles on Wednesday to ⁠verify its navy’s mission capabilities and the reliability of its war deterrent, state ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

BANGKOK—China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from ...