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, ...

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 ...

BANGKOK—The Thai government on Wednesday pledged to tighten gun controls and crack down on illegal firearms after two deadly shootings near Bangkok in less than a week renewed pressure on authorities ...

Amid heightened diplomatic tensions, two Japanese nationals were detained by Chinese customs authorities in May, one apparently over a suspected attempt to take rare earths out of the country despite ...

Aeon Co. acknowledged on Aug. 11 that it allowed employees to re-enter Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, after evacuating, which violated its own safety manual, before a fatal ...

BANGKOK—Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday after U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records, while oil prices advanced as doubts persisted over when the war with Iran will allow crude ...

KAWASAKI—Three workers were killed, one was injured and another remains missing after a 500-ton counterweight and scaffolding collapsed during a crane-dismantling operation at a steel mill on April 7.

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.

Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, killed in an Israeli strike in 2023 and recently recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in ...

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.

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.

BANGKOK—Myanmar’s military has increasingly used low-cost aircraft such as motorized paragliders and gyrocopters in escalating aerial attacks that kill civilians in its conflict with armed, ...