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

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

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

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 ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is moving recklessly forward with a revision of the Imperial House Law even ...

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

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

The government is compiling a plan to make it easier for university researchers and national research and development ...

Bookstores across Japan are on alert ahead of the July 13 release of the “Weekly Shonen Jump” comic anthology published by ...

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