Shoppers may soon get welcome relief for soaring rice prices as the government started the release of its massive stockpile of the staple food stored for emergencies on March 18.

Hong Kong's post office announced late Thursday it would continue to suspend shipping items containing goods to the United ...

HIROSHIMA—The district court here rejected a request on March 5 by plaintiffs to stop operations at the Ikata nuclear power ...

Japanese and Nigerian police have jointly dismantled a criminal ring involved in social media investment and romance scams ...

BEIJING—U.S. President Donald Trump departed China on Friday touting business deals that gave markets little to cheer, while ...

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday ...

The Cabinet Office released on March 31 slightly lower death and disaster projections from an expected Nankai Trough ...

Misconduct at precision motor manufacturer Nidec Corp. occurred not only in accounting to inflate profits but also in ...

NAHA—After more than half a century, a “glue” that has united Okinawa prefectural residents is losing its grip.

Six people were arrested on suspicion of soliciting investors to place their money in an overseas fund even though the ...

HAVANA/WASHINGTON—⁠CIA director John Ratcliffe on Thursday delivered ⁠a message from President Donald Trump to top Cuban ...

The government plans to provide cash handouts, likely 50,000 yen ($344) per person, to ease the burden of the higher cost of ...