SINGAPORE—The yen bounced on Friday on news that Japan plans to encourage ‌pension funds to increase their holdings of ...

In a park tucked among the factories and warehouses of a waterfront industrial district, 32 contestants confident in their ...

KUMAMOTO--A Taiwanese man who runs a real estate investment business in Japan was dealing with an influx of inquiries from ...

ISHIGAKI--A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's southwest on Friday, prompting ...

The research data went into constructing a robot that takes about nine minutes to finish cleaning a single toilet bowl. On a ...

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, “Kokurojo” (The Samurai and the Prisoner) is the award-winning Japanese filmmaker’s first go at ...

BEIJING—A fire broke out at a shoe factory in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian on Thursday, killing 28 people, the ...

MOSCOW—Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of ‌measures to support the domestic fuel ...

With the Major League Baseball draft just days away, Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki faces a career decision that has ...

When Shintaro Mochizuki fell to the grass in celebration at Wimbledon on July 1, he was the latest example of a quiet ...

Bookstores across Japan are on alert ahead of the July 13 release of the “Weekly Shonen Jump” comic anthology published by ...

Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in ...