OSAKA—A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of killing a 17-year-old boy and gravely injuring two other boys of the ...

Myanmar has ordered the head of East Timor’s diplomatic mission to leave the country within seven days, state media quoted ...

BEIJING--An explosion and fire at a fireworks shop in eastern China has killed eight people and left two others with minor ...

SEOUL--North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed ...

Asia shares were mixed on Monday and gold declined, as several stock markets were closed or trading for a half-day ahead of ...

Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance accusing the Chinese company of using Disney characters to train and ...

It's already the peak viewing time for some 8,000 sakura trees of an early blooming variety in this town on the Izu Peninsula ...

FUKUOKA—The Fukuoka High Court on Feb. 16 rejected a retrial for Michitoshi Kuma, a former death row inmate executed for the 1992 abduction and murders of two young girls in a case known as the ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet is enjoying a high 63 percent approval rating following the Liberal Democratic Party’s landslide victory in the Feb. 8 Lower House election, according to a new ...

SEOUL--North Korea is set to unveil new weapons development goals at its Ninth Party Congress this month, amid assessments that Pyongyang has checked off only part of a sweeping list of capabilities ...

An absence of diverse interactions, falling prey to online misinformation and personal trials are all part of a twisted melting pot that is feeding into the growing misgivings some Japanese harbor ...

Following a disastrous Lower House election that saw the Centrist Reform Alliance (Chudo) emerge with under one-third of the seats of its pre-election strength, the party chose a new leader.