Japan has ⁠started its first nationwide survey ⁠of animal cafes amid concerns over animal welfare, hygiene and public health, a government official said, bringing greater scrutiny ⁠to the popular but ...

SEOUL—North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, adding ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended in the inferno of ...

Vietnam police have arrested three people, including a Norwegian citizen and an Australian national of Vietnamese origin, accusing them of terrorism, in an operation that a pro-democracy group says ...

The Cabinet on Sept. 15 approved the outline for a consumption tax cut on food and related support measures but offered no specifics on the revenue source for the multitrillion-yen project. The ...

WASHINGTON―US and Japanese government officials and company officials met to discuss supply bottlenecks affecting ‌access to Chinese yttrium, a rare earth metal vital to aerospace and chipmaking, ⁠two ...

BEIJING/SHENZHEN―When Zhu Zhili was looking for a base to set up an artificial intelligence film studio in China two years ago, there was just one clear choice: the southern city of Shenzhen with its ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will urge the government to institute “administrative wiretapping,” which would allow broad communications surveillance for national security purposes without ...

More than 200 Chinese fishing vessels were anchored at a disputed atoll in the South China Sea claimed by China and other countries, according to an analysis of satellite imagery. The analysis by Deep ...

OSAKA--A major hospital here suspended routine medical services after a ransomware cyberattack shut down the facility’s electronic medical record system, officials said on Oct. 31. Osaka General ...

When tsunami alerts went out across a wide area of Japan on July 30, many foreign tourists were left in the dark to the threat and the recommended course of action due to the language barrier. Eugénie ...

Stanford University slugger Rintaro Sasaki will sign with the Miami Marlins, spurning a far more lucrative contract to play in Japan in favor of pursuing his Major League Baseball dream, sources said ...