Tokyo Electric Power Co. started operating a nuclear power plant for the first time in about 14 years on Jan. 21 as operations resumed at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for the fifth straight year in 2025, according to government data released Thursday, as concerns ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s envisioned enhanced security framework was placed front and center in the ruling Liberal ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Jan. 21 endorsed 284 candidates for the Feb. 8 Lower House election, including 37 ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued heavy snow alerts for Ishikawa and Shiga prefectures over a high likelihood of ...

Sony Group Corp. is spinning off its long-struggling television business, once a flagship of its consumer electronics ...

NARA—The Nara District Court on Jan. 21 sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami to life in prison for the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

As winter holidaymakers gear up for overseas travel, Japan’s consumer watchdog is drawing attention to a growing wave of ...

TAIPEI--Towering high above Taiwan’s capital city at 1,667 feet (508 meters), Taipei 101 dominates the skyline.

BEIJING--Chinese exports of rare earth magnets to Japan in December fell 8% from November, when a diplomatic spat left market ...

Two pro-democracy activists behind a group that for decades organized a vigil that commemorated people killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 will stand trial on Thursday, in another ...

A Tokyo-based startup said transplants of cardiac muscle cells that it engineered from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...