BEIJING--Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and ...

Hiroshi Okuda, the powerful and outspoken leader who modernized Toyota Motor Corp. and spearheaded the release of the groundbreaking Prius hybrid, died on Aug. 8. He was 93.

YOKOHAMA—The U.S. military is gone, but bitter memories remain for a Japanese family forced to live in a neighborhood encircled by high fences. Moreover, Minoru Saji, 78, believes the central and ...

Typhoon No. 15 made landfall in southern Ibaraki Prefecture at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 11, making history as the first to do so in the prefecture since record-keeping began in 1951.

The Justice Ministry instructed public prosecutors’ offices nationwide in writing to ensure a more cautious and restrained approach when appealing court decisions granting retrials, sources said. The ...

The business community has heightened calls for Japan to allow married couples to choose separate surnames, a reflection of ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket lit up the early morning sky in its successful ninth flight, deploying an operational satellite into orbit for the first time since the failed eighth mission late last year.

TAIPEI—The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged — about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her ...

Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, killed in an Israeli strike in 2023 and recently recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in ...

Chikara Sakaguchi, a former health minister and vice leader of the Komeito party, whose moral stand was pivotal in securing a landmark government apology for its treatment of leprosy patients in 2001, ...

TAIPEI--Taiwan’s government ⁠has condemned “dangerous” planned Chinese ⁠navy drills with an Indonesian warship off the island’s east coast, saying Beijing was trying to create a false impression to ...

Brutal heat is hitting Kumamoto Prefecture, which was heavily damaged by a powerful earthquake late last month. The city of Kumamoto on Aug. 3 recorded a historic high temperature of 40.3 degrees.