SINGAPORE—The yen bounced on Friday on news that Japan plans to encourage ‌pension funds to increase their holdings of ...

In a park tucked among the factories and warehouses of a waterfront industrial district, 32 contestants confident in their ...

BEIJING—A fire broke out at a shoe factory in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian on Thursday, killing 28 people, the ...

ISHIGAKI--A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's southwest on Friday, prompting ...

MOSCOW—Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of ‌measures to support the domestic fuel ...

Taro Yamamoto, leader of left-wing opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi, said he will step down from the post and retire from ...

A bill to revise the Imperial House Law, aimed at securing the number of imperial family members, passed the Lower House on ...

Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in ...

Hong Kong dog owners and their four-legged friends have gained new freedoms after the city relaxed a decades-old rule, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump mistakenly claimed the “Islamic Republic of Japan” had fired missiles at an American aircraft ...

An elite prosecutor who led the probe into the slush fund scandal within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is suspected of ...

Tokyo police said July 7 they have arrested three members of a medical association on suspicion of receiving payments for ...