Tokyo prosecutors investigating a widening money and politics scandal in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction have questioned former economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on a voluntary ...

The business community has heightened calls for Japan to allow married couples to choose separate surnames, a reflection of ...

BANGKOK—The Thai government on Wednesday pledged to tighten gun controls and crack down on illegal firearms after two deadly shootings near Bangkok in less than a week renewed pressure on authorities ...

Aeon Co. acknowledged on Aug. 11 that it allowed employees to re-enter Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, after evacuating, which violated its own safety manual, before a fatal ...

BANGKOK—Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday after U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records, while oil prices advanced as doubts persisted over when the war with Iran will allow crude ...

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.

Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, killed in an Israeli strike in 2023 and recently recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in ...

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.

BANGKOK—Myanmar’s military has increasingly used low-cost aircraft such as motorized paragliders and gyrocopters in escalating aerial attacks that kill civilians in its conflict with armed, ...

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.

A Meiji University-related start-up announced plans to begin Japan’s first clinical trial of transplanting organs from cloned pigs into human patients as early as 2028. PorMedTec, based in Kawasaki, ...

Officials who opened one of the largest fountains in the world in waters off Tokyo are banking on making a big splash with tourists despite concerns from politicians over its high price tag and ...