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 ...

TAIPEI--‌Taiwan’s armed forces carried out an anti-blockade drill ⁠during annual war games, using ⁠the navy and coast guard to simulate escorting a merchant ship, the defense ministry said on Thursday ...

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.

JAKARTA/TAIPEI--Indonesia’s navy said on Wednesday that joint exercises which ‌China said took place east of Taiwan were routine and not related to “war ⁠fighting”, after Taipei expressed alarm and ...

A controversial Japanese law criminalizing desecration of the national flag took effect Aug. 13 as legal experts and opposition parties warned that it threatens freedom of expression. Under the new ...

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.

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.

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

TAIPEI—The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged — about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her ...

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, ...