The five-member male idol group Arashi announced on May 6 that it will end activities with a concert tour to be held next ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING--U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet China’s ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

South Korean officials on Wednesday downplayed a Czech court’s decision to put on hold an $18 billion project for South Korea ...

NEW YORK—Two saplings of “hibaku jumoku" (atomic-bombed trees) were planted in a garden on the grounds of the U.N.

North Korea on Thursday fired several ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, adding to a ...

OSAKA—A simple change in scenery has led to a dramatic decrease in prostitutes soliciting customers in a narrow alley running ...

Kagoshima finally dethroning the nation's top tea-growing prefecture sent shock waves through local producers.

The town of Futaba, cohost to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, was entirely evacuated after the Great East ...

The prospect of snatching up one of Japan’s abandoned homes is a well-trod exercise in “what if,” but reviving a dilapidated ...

The Vietnam, India and Brunei pavilions have officially opened at the Osaka Kansai Expo, more than two weeks later than those ...