Minuscule airborne plastic particles are spreading to all corners of the planet, penetrating deep into human bodies and ...

SEOUL--China has notified South Korea that it would be postponing a trilateral meeting of culture ministers with Japan ...

OITA—Firefighters continued to battle a blaze in Oita city’s Saganoseki district on Nov. 19 after a body was found in the ...

SINGAPORE--The dollar was riding high on Thursday after notching its sharpest gain in six weeks as Fed minutes made a ...

BEIJING/TOKYO--Trade cooperation between China and Japan has been "severely damaged," the Chinese commerce ministry said on ...

A planned trip by some Panamanian lawmakers to Taiwan has unleashed the latest diplomatic spat with China as the Central ...

The government is preparing a comprehensive economic stimulus package worth more than 20 trillion yen ($128 billion), ...

Three draft storyboards created by manga maestro Osamu Tezuka, including two previously unreleased titles, have been ...

HANNO, Saitama Prefecture–In a quiet corner in the Hanno High School library here, a bookshelf holds about 100 titles that ...

Images of “diplomatic superiority” shown by Chinese state media have exacerbated the Japan-China feud over Prime Minister ...

Conservationists in Cambodia have for the first time released two captive-bred Greater Adjutant Stork chicks into the wild as ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party started discussions to revise Japan's national defense policy on Nov. 20 with a focus on ...