South Koreans are hitting the ballparks for professional baseball games in record numbers, including a growing number of ...

The Tokaido was built around 400 years ago to link Tokyo, then known as Edo, to Kyoto. The route, which is closely tied to ...

The leaders of Myanmar's early pro-democracy movement say the recent election in the country was meaningless and continue to ...

Hojo Railway in Hyogo Prefecture managed to boost ridership with the introduction of volunteer stationmasters and an old, ...

A US media outlet says the United States and Iran are considering extending their ceasefire, which ends next week.

A major fire at one of Australia's two oil refineries has raised concerns about the country's energy security. The government ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has resumed commercial operation of a reactor at its nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, 14 ...

Japanese prosecutors are demanding five years in prison for the operator of a sightseeing boat that sank off the coast of ...

Thirteen Japanese nationals who were detained in Indonesia last month for alleged scam operations have been arrested by the ...

Britain's Financial Times says its investigation has found that Iran used a commercial satellite launched by a Chinese firm ...

Children performing Kabuki theater have attracted crowds to a festival in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. The Nagahama ...

Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven nations called for the situation in the Middle East to be quickly de-escalated. They ...