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 ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday following a retreat on Wall Street as a U.S. Treasury Department plan to boost its ...

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

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

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

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

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

VOX POPULI: A century-old Okinawan community holds fast in Yokohama ...

Summer is peak demand season at a men’s grooming clinic in Japan, where appointments are becoming harder to get as scores ...