A new tour of the famed Akiyoshido cave system here, one of the largest limestone networks in Japan, offers visitors the ...

Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian posts along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir for a second consecutive ...

WASHINGTON--Japan may have averted U.S. pressure for a stronger yen in bilateral finance talks on Thursday, but a closer look ...

A rumor circulating in Hong Kong that a huge earthquake and tsunami will hit Japan this summer led to such a sharp drop in ...

SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has unveiled a new naval destroyer, claiming it as a significant advancement toward his ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to China at ...

The Japanese government is signaling it is prepared to increase its imports of soybeans and corn from the United States to ...

Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to a record low in the fiscal year ended March 2024, government data showed on ...

Writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born in 1892. In his 1925 autobiographical novella “Daidoji Shinsuke no Hansei” (Shinsuke ...

Toy pistols made in China that are just as lethal as proper handguns have been found to be circulating on internet shopping ...

NARA—The species resembling a "dragon" mummy that has long been kept in the Shosoin Repository here, a World Heritage site, ...

Golden Week kicked off April 26 and millions of Japanese were on the move even though only a two-day weekend was in the immediate offing.