Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the ...

BEIJING--Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and ...

Hiroshi Okuda, the powerful and outspoken leader who modernized Toyota Motor Corp. and spearheaded the release of the groundbreaking Prius hybrid, died on Aug. 8. He was 93.

HIKAWA, Kumamoto Prefecture—Steel rail tracks are seen buckled in undulating waves, utility poles lean precariously, and some train carriages remain stranded on the line. On the JR Kagoshima Line, ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, powered by gains for AI-related stocks including computer chips as regional markets tracked a rally on Wall Street. U.S. futures were little changed and ...

WELLINGTON--New Zealand’s security agency said ⁠it disrupted an attempt ⁠by a Chinese state-linked observatory to install satellite-tracking infrastructure in the country, highlighting the case in its ...

The Asia Pacific Institute of Research is warning that overtourism could morph into a more serious issue if the government's target of 60 million foreign tourists in 2030 is reached. A survey by the ...

The business community has heightened calls for Japan to allow married couples to choose separate surnames, a reflection of ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket lit up the early morning sky in its successful ninth flight, deploying an operational satellite into orbit for the first time since the failed eighth mission late last year.

Typhoon No. 15 made landfall in southern Ibaraki Prefecture at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 11, making history as the first to do so in the prefecture since record-keeping began in 1951.

Brutal heat is hitting Kumamoto Prefecture, which was heavily damaged by a powerful earthquake late last month.

Chikara Sakaguchi, a former health minister and vice leader of the Komeito party, whose moral stand was pivotal in securing a landmark government apology for its treatment of leprosy patients in 2001, ...