SEOUL--The second season of “Pachinko,” opening Friday, delicately captures the plight of ethnic Koreans brought to Japan ...

The Financial Services Agency ordered a pro-Pyongyang credit union based in Sapporo to partially suspend operations after a former executive was found to have embezzled 1.4 billion yen ($8.7 million) ...

The number of births in Japan fell for the 10th consecutive year in 2025, hitting a record low of 705,809, according to ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...

The government on June 24 announced details of Japan’s Growth Strategy that is topped by a public- and private-sector investment of 102 trillion yen ($630.7 billion) for artificial intelligence and ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering toward the main Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. The Japan ...

Worries about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments are absurd, SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning the use of cars and ...

BEIJING/SYDNEY--China’s military test-fired a missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into ‌the Pacific on Monday, state media reported, drawing criticism and concerns from Japan, ⁠Australia and New ...

The Cabinet approved a comprehensive support package on Aug. 28 that includes a “Kyushu reconstruction discount program” to bolster tourism to the region that suffered a major earthquake last month.

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing his uncle’s final days and imagining how his life ended in the inferno of ...

A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what seismologists had long feared: a major earthquake stemming from the active Hinagu ...

KASHIWA, Chiba Prefecture—A midwife suspected of murdering a patient by contaminating his intravenous drip with human feces had been searching online for information about the lethality of such an ...