Beijing – Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who died on Wednesday age 97, was never one to mince his words. When the four-volume selection ⁠of his speeches came out in 2011, they shocked readers with ...

The major earthquake that hit Kumamoto Prefecture late last month is hitting the local tourism industry hard amid the peak summer holiday season. The Kumamoto Prefectural Government estimates that the ...

When Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state TV last week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s supreme leader, it sparked fresh speculation about the whereabouts of Mojtaba ...

Yasukuni Shrine has clarified that its new policy banning military-style clothing on its grounds does not apply to active-duty members. After receiving inquiries, including those from The Japan Times, ...

Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday it arrested a 23-year-old man after he tried to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan by hiding them inside socks in a suitcase. Daniel Isaac ...

Six of the biggest names in finance are helping Nvidia ease some of the investor anxiety that’s been building for weeks over its swelling commitments to backstop the artificial intelligence boom. The ...

The coordinated intervention by Japan and the United States to support the yen has bumped up hard against reality, the $70 billion or so committed to strengthening the currency all but ineffective as ...

A coach has gotten millions of views on social media by using parkour techniques to teach the elderly things such as better ...

Flight 123 — a Boeing 747 bound for Osaka from Tokyo — crashed into a mountain on Aug. 12, 1985, killing 520 people.

Newer fans, who have only discovered Japan’s national sport in the past few years, could be forgiven for thinking that rapid progress to the top of the banzuke is the norm for sumo’s biggest names.

The military increasingly relies on motorized paragliders, gyrocopters and drones for low-altitude strikes using unguided explosives, according to U.N. investigators.

Taipei says Beijing was trying to create a false impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan, where the drills were ...