An illegally constructed mosque is now operating and drawing numerous worshippers on land in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, ...

Asian shares mostly declined Tuesday as renewed fighting threatened the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. U.S. futures also fell. Japan’s ...

TAIPEI--Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that maintaining the political status quo is the most ‌responsible ...

So is the “Open Yokohama” logo mark created by the city in 2009 to represent its future. In 1968, Yokohama’s association with ...

Oil prices rose Monday following the latest fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, but Wall Street isn’t very worried, ...

In a seismic shift, shares of SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) surged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on June 1, lifting its market ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. on June 2 began the delicate process of removing nuclear fuel assemblies from the storage pool at ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on June 1 approved a draft bill to criminalize the desecration of the national flag, a ...

Shoppers in Japan are seeing the effects of the energy and supply shocks triggered by the Middle East conflict on store ...

FUKUSHIMA--Four people were mauled in bear attacks here on June 2, while an elderly woman likely attacked by a bear was found ...

A new documentary film investigates what triggered the doomed attempted escape of more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war ...

There is a weighty tome that sleeps silently in the basement stack room of The Asahi Shimbun's Tokyo headquarters where I ...