OITA—Firefighters continued to battle a blaze in Oita city’s Saganoseki district on Nov. 19 after a body was found in the ...

Pirated Japanese publications available for free on websites worldwide cause an estimated 8.5 trillion yen ($55.2 billion) in ...

SINGAPORE--The dollar was riding high on Thursday after notching its sharpest gain in six weeks as Fed minutes made a ...

The government is preparing a comprehensive economic stimulus package worth more than 20 trillion yen ($128 billion), ...

A planned trip by some Panamanian lawmakers to Taiwan has unleashed the latest diplomatic spat with China as the Central ...

Images of “diplomatic superiority” shown by Chinese state media have exacerbated the Japan-China feud over Prime Minister ...

Malaysia has suspended operations at a rare earth site and two tin mines in western Perak state following an investigation ...

The Tokyo High Court on Nov. 19 awarded 39 million yen ($247,000) in damages to the family of a Nepalese man who died in ...

Unusual marine conditions have devastated farmed oysters in the Seto Inland Sea, prompting industry leaders to request ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks to ozeki ...

MANILA--A Philippine court convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges ...

Conservationists in Cambodia have for the first time released two captive-bred Greater Adjutant Stork chicks into the wild as ...