SEOUL--North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and ...

VIENTIANE--Relations between China and Japan are at a critical stage, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Japanese ...

SHANGHAI—A knife-wielding man injured two Japanese men and a Chinese woman at a Japanese restaurant in one of Shanghai’s most ...

BOSTON--A U.S. jury on Monday ⁠found Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical liable ⁠for causing about $885 million in damages by ...

A criminal complaint will be filed against the captain of one of the two boats that capsized in March off the Henoko district ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung agreed on May 19 to bolster energy cooperation, ...

Japan is considering allowing financial institutions to “proactively” suspend their systems at their discretion if they face ...

ISE, Mie Prefecture—About 3,000 locals in "happi" coats began moving timber from sacred trees on May 9 to build new structures for the deities at Ise Jingu shrine as part of a major ceremony that ...

UTSUNOMIYA—Police have arrested a Yokohama couple on suspicion of directing four teenagers to perpetrate a home invasion that ...

The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday expressed concern over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare ...

Jiro is fitted with a device called “the Conscience Circuit,” also known as Gemini, which is meant to make him incapable of ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said May 18 she is considering a supplementary budget to resume a subsidy to help households ...