HONG KONG (AP) — Stocks retreated in Asia on Thursday after an initial jump that pushed Japan's Nikkei 225 index above 60,000 ...

Huge plumes of smoke blanketed swaths of the Southeast on Wednesday as crews battled rapidly growing wildfires that destroyed ...

Firefighters continued to battle wildfires on April 23 that burned at two locations through the previous night driven by ...

Japanese stocks attracted significant foreign investor inflows in the week through April 18, driven by a rally ‌in artificial ...

While I was walking down a street in central Tokyo, I came across a tree pruner working on trees along the pavement.

A growing number of local governments plan to cash in on Japan’s post-pandemic tourist boom by adopting accommodation taxes, ...

The Upper House passed a bill introducing an active cyberdefense allowing the central government to collect communications ...

Japan’s trade deficit was 1.7 trillion yen ($10.7 billion) in the fiscal year that ended in March, the government said ...

The 41-year-old head priest of Kodaiji Korinin temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward noticed a parked car blocking the road to ...

Legislation to beef up the nation’s intelligence framework is expected to pass the Diet as the opposition Democratic Party ...

Posts containing misinformation and blatant lies flooded social media after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast ...

Reconstruction and land development in coastal areas of the Tohoku region are nearly complete, 13 years after the destruction ...