The Defense Ministry on Friday announced that it had signed an agreement with Nippon Steel to acquire the company’s former ...

The Tokyo District Court found Shinji Tanimoto and his wife, Shiori, guilty of earning profit from referring customers to ...

The earthquake-hit municipal library in the city of Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, is moving step by step toward reopening after ...

Major combat operations have been paused for weeks but there has been little progress toward a wider peace agreement between ...

The insurer, which has held off on adding to its Japanese government bond holdings over the past two years after unrealized ...

The Netflix series tries to destigmatize conversations about sex with unflinching honesty, but flattens the story in the ...

For Taiwan, holding Penghu — a strategic cluster of 90 islands and islets — would allow its forces to resist a Chinese ...

Marshall Wace has long traded in Asia, with Japan being a key market. It opened a Hong Kong office in 2006, bringing to the ...

The Centrist Reform Alliance was supposed to have merged by now with the remaining elements of the Constitutional Democratic ...

The number of children on nursery school waiting lists in the nation as of April 1 rose by 181 from a year earlier to 2,435, ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday was caused by a glacial collapse that triggered a vast flow of icy ...

Some ⁠banks have frozen Radiant World’s accounts and trading houses have severed ​ties on concerns ⁠the commodity trader had ...