This is part of a series on issues surrounding freedom of speech, focusing on ”justice” in society where social media and ...

The Japanese government has begun examining ways to dispatch the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran is effectively blocking, under Japan’s pacifist Constitution and existing legal ...

OSAKA--One of the most famous paintings in the Western canon went on display here on Aug. 21, as “Girl with a Pearl Earring” ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing ...

Japan hanged a prisoner on Aug. 21, ending the life of Sunao Takami, a 58-year-old man who killed five people when he set ...

Thirteen years after being launched amid much fanfare to promote Japanese culture overseas, the Cool Japan Fund Inc. effort ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday following a retreat on Wall Street as a U.S. Treasury Department plan to boost its ...

TAIPEI—Taiwan ’s government on Thursday proposed a record-high defense budget of 1.12 trillion Taiwan dollars ($35 billion) ...

SEOUL--It was a vision to give South Korea a stock market that reflected its true economic dynamism, by shedding regulatory ...

Summer is peak demand season at a men’s grooming clinic in Japan, where appointments are becoming harder to get as scores ...

The commander of U.S. Space Forces Japan said space is no longer a “sanctuary” and instead has become a warfighting domain, ...

The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared on Thursday as oil prices, worries about ...