The revised Imperial House Law and other related legislation will take effect on Oct. 24, enabling women to retain their imperial status after marriage and somewhat narrowing financial inequality ...

Religious corporations operating “shukubo” temple lodgings on Mount Koyasan in Wakayama Prefecture have been penalized for failing to declare more than 100 million yen ($650,000) in income, sources ...

Japanese wheelchair tennis player Tokito Oda said he welcomes the pressure of trying to complete a rare calendar Grand Slam by winning all four major tournaments in a single year.

An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its ...

BANGKOK—China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in ...

A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted the publisher of The Wall Street Journal of deterring its reporter from taking up a trade union role, in a case that raised concerns about press freedom in the ...

Stocks on Wall Street lost ground again Wednesday as the price of crude oil climbed back above $100 a barrel amid further ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, should ...

TAIPEI--Any conflict across the Taiwan Strait would ⁠have a bigger impact ⁠on the global economy than World War Two, and the ...

SHANGHAI—A car racing team whose injured driver was rescued by another competitor after a horrific crash in Shanghai on ...

SINGAPORE/LONDON--The Japanese yen pushed to seven-month highs on Wednesday, keeping the dollar on the defensive, as ‌traders ...

DALLAS—President Donald Trump capped Wednesday’s opening night of the unusual Republican midterm convention by slamming ...