Nagasaki marked the 79th anniversary of its atomic bombing at the end of World War II at a ceremony Friday eclipsed by the ...

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 ...

BEIJING—Typhoon No. 13, or Dolphin, hit China’s eastern coast on Sunday evening after forcing over 300,000 people to ...

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 ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, powered by gains for AI-related stocks including computer chips as regional markets tracked a rally on Wall Street.

Steel rail tracks are seen buckled in undulating waves, utility poles lean precariously, and some train carriages remain stranded on the line.

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

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.

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 ...

WELLINGTON--New Zealand’s security agency said ⁠it disrupted an attempt ⁠by a Chinese state-linked observatory to install satellite-tracking infrastructure in the country, highlighting the case in its ...

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.

TAIPEI—For 30 minutes, the internet in parts of Taiwan crawled. The slowdown Thursday for people in the capital, Taipei, and six other cities and localities was part of the last phase of the island’s ...