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

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

Chow Hang-tung, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent political prisoners, has been behind bars for more than five years. Now she ...

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 ...

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

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

Japan is right to support the ICC and its Japanese president. But support should not mean treating the institution as immune ...

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to introduce a system that automatically transcribes emergency calls and ...

Pikotaro had a pen, an apple, a pineapple and a beat. With these, he changed Japanese music forever. On Aug. 25, 2016, the ...

This year marks the second-earliest start of the season, according to health ministry records dating back to 1999.

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