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

About 20 current and former senior law enforcement officials are facing disciplinary measures over the wrongful arrests and indictments of three officials of a Yokohama-based manufacturer.

Hiroshi Okuda, the powerful and outspoken leader who modernized Toyota Motor Corp. and spearheaded the release of the groundbreaking Prius hybrid, died on Aug. 8. He was 93.

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 ...

Chikara Sakaguchi, a former health minister and vice leader of the Komeito party, whose moral stand was pivotal in securing a landmark government apology for its treatment of leprosy patients in 2001, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iturup, an island ‌in the disputed ⁠Kuril Islands ⁠chain claimed by both Russia and ⁠Japan, state news agency TASS said on Thursday.

TAIPEI—The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged — about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her ...

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. U.S. futures were little changed and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

HIKAWA, Kumamoto Prefecture—Steel rail tracks are seen buckled in undulating waves, utility poles lean precariously, and some train carriages remain stranded on the line. On the JR Kagoshima Line, ...