OSAKA--Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) kicked off its presidential election Nov. 17 with a record four candidates ...

LIMA--Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping here on the sidelines of the ...

Tokyo Tower is celebrating the holiday season once again with illuminations that transformed the 333-meter-high landmark in ...

U.S. engineer Jonathan Knight spent five years perfecting his fusion of audio gear and Wajima lacquerware here.

KYIV--The foreign ministers of Japan and Ukraine expressed grave concerns about the deployment of North Korean troops ...

SYDNEY--Japanese troops will begin regular deployments in northern Australia as part of military cooperation with Australia ...

NAHA--Five years ago, historic Shuri-jo Castle here was reduced to a smoldering ruin after a catastrophic fire left people ...

Takuya Matsunaga’s emotional state had plunged to depths where he harbored thoughts of suicide and experienced graphic ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...

A private-sector panel made up of academics, legislators and other experts has called for a fundamental review of the problem ...

BEIJING--A former student went on a stabbing rampage at a vocational college in eastern China, killing eight people and ...

When sportswriter Kazumasa Ota was assigned overseas to cover the Los Angeles Angels in 2022, he didn't want the plum ...