The central government announced on Dec. 19 that the overall costs to develop infrastructure, such as access to venues, for ...

Academics and midwives on June 27 submitted a petition to the health ministry demanding the removal of a legal clause that ...

Executives at Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Bank have decided to step down to take responsibility for a series of ...

The number of public baths, known as “sento,” in the capital almost halved in the past 15 years, with 462 operating as of December 2022, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government. The figure has ...

TAIPEI—In a key security appointment, the former top uniformed officer of the Self-Defense Forces has been appointed as a ...

Japan and Indonesia agreed to enhance cooperation on maritime security with an eye on China’s growing assertiveness in ...

Family cover-ups and media silence helped enable showbiz guru and sexual deviant Johnny Kitagawa to abuse perhaps hundreds of ...

The National Police Agency is reviewing the “very easy” procedure of converting foreign driver’s licenses into Japanese ones ...

Shigeto Fujiwara is one of the dwindling number of World War II veterans who are still around to share their battlefield ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast have signed a formal ...

A smelting furnace exploded Sunday at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 ...

A rather isolated community of large palatial buildings is nestled in a mountainous area of Gapyeong, Gyeonggi province, ...