KYOTO--A transgender woman in her 50s has filed a petition with the Kyoto Family Court to change her gender from male to ...

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev told Japan on Tuesday it would have to drop territorial claims to a group of ...

STOCKHOLM--The United States and China have agreed to work on extending a deadline for new tariffs on each other after two ...

OSAKA--The central government and Kumamoto Prefecture both appealed an Osaka District Court ruling that expanded the ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ...

Around a third of insurance claims submitted by discredited used car dealer Bigmotor Co. were found to be fraudulent, but ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering ...

SEOUL--An explosion and fire occurred at a defense company in South Korea on Monday, killing five people and injuring two ...

A suspicious cargo ship exhibited increasingly brazen behavior for two days in waters off the southern coast of Taiwan.

Malaysia on Monday began enforcing rules barring millions of children younger than 16 from owning social media accounts, ...

SINGAPORE--U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured Pacific allies on Saturday that Washington remained committed to the ...

BEIJING--China’s Coast Guard on Monday said it had conducted “law enforcement” patrols in waters east of Taiwan in response ...