BANGKOK--The illicit trade in methamphetamine and other dangerous drugs is growing by leaps and bounds in Southeast Asia, ...

Trust in the electoral system that underpins democracy could be seriously undermined if campaigns are marred by activities ...

Measures will be added to the system that will replace the highly-criticized technical intern trainee program to prevent ...

The number of people in the labor force in Japan who are 15 and older reached an all-time high for the second year in a row, ...

Famed Catholic author and award-winning essayist Ayako Sono died on Feb. 28. She was 93. Sono, whose real name was Chizuko ...

Public prosecutors will drop their case against senior officials from the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau over ...

The years before the 2030s, when the younger population will sharply decrease, offer the last chance for Japan to reverse its ...

Renowned philosopher Kojin Karatani, whose influential books include “The Structure of World History,” has been awarded this ...

The Supreme Court has acquitted two former top executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the crippled ...

NAHA--The island prefecture of Okinawa got left behind from mainland Japan decades ago. Postwar U.S. military occupation ...

SEOUL—A South Korean temple has reiterated its agreement to return a stolen Buddhist statue to its rightful owner, a Japanese ...

The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered a former TV reporter to pay damages to a journalist for ...