NAHA--Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki has no more legal cards to play in the prefecture's long-running battle to stop the ...

New details have come to light on the intrusion of a Japanese destroyer into Chinese territorial waters last July that demonstrate the multitude of errors that precipitated it and Beijing’s strict ...

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

Four railway workers died on Aug. 20 after being struck by a Spacia X limited express train while clearing vegetation near ...

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 ...

The Defense Ministry is gunning for its largest budget ever in its initial budget request of about 8.9 trillion yen ($56.1 ...

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

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

The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran on Wednesday after the UAE said it had come under renewed fire from ...

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

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

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