The magnitude 7.5 earthquake that occurred off northeastern Japan recently highlighted the need for Japan to provide safety tips and evacuation information to foreign nationals more effectively, ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after ‌carrying out duties in Russia, the North's KCNA news agency reported on ...

Prep materials for a November appearance in parliament by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, whose remarks in the session precipitated the latest flareup in Sino-Japanese tensions, strongly ...

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, despite a diplomatic crisis ‌between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan. Beijing ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party wants to include discussions on whether the export of lethal weapons to "nations under aggression" should be allowed as part of the proposed easing of ...

Cambodia said Saturday that Thailand continued dropping bombs on its territory hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said the neighbors had agreed to stop fighting. The latest clashes between the ...

The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a ...

The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered peace agreement by backing a new and deadly offensive in the mineral-rich eastern Congo and warned that the Trump administration ...

Nippon Steel Corp said it aims to invest around $6 trillion yen ($39 billion) over the next five years domestically and globally, including upgrading the facilities of the recently acquired United ...

Roughly 10 percent of high school students in Japan who have abused over-the-counter medication such as cough suppressants within the past year report using them several times a week or more, a ...

Satoshi Sato, secretary general of an association of 55 restaurant and other businesses in Akita City’s Kawabata entertainment district. Restaurants and bars in the Tohoku region are feeling the ...

The watch of a Japanese hiker killed by a bear has revealed harrowing details about his last moments, including that the animal returned to his body the next day, a newspaper report said. Bears have ...