Four railway workers died on Aug. 20 after being struck by a Spacia X limited express train while clearing vegetation near ...

OSAKA--One of the most famous paintings in the Western canon went on display here on Aug. 21, as “Girl with a Pearl Earring” ...

Japan hanged a prisoner on Aug. 21, ending the life of Sunao Takami, a 58-year-old man who killed five people when he set ...

Thirteen years after being launched amid much fanfare to promote Japanese culture overseas, the Cool Japan Fund Inc. effort ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday following a retreat on Wall Street as a U.S. Treasury Department plan to boost its ...

HIROSHIMA—An American man whose uncle died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima visited for the first time this year, retracing ...

TAIPEI—Taiwan ’s government on Thursday proposed a record-high defense budget of 1.12 trillion Taiwan dollars ($35 billion) ...

SEOUL--It was a vision to give South Korea a stock market that reflected its true economic dynamism, by shedding regulatory ...

The Defense Ministry is gunning for its largest budget ever in its initial budget request of about 8.9 trillion yen ($56.1 ...

An agreement was reached at a reconvened international conference to increase the annual catch quota for large Pacific ...

The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared on Thursday as oil prices, worries about ...

Summer is peak demand season at a men’s grooming clinic in Japan, where appointments are becoming harder to get as scores ...