WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...

China’s dream to establish a Sinocentric order in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific poses a grave security threat to the United ...

Yumiko Shiragaki, a 65-year-old Fukuoka resident, spoke haltingly about losing her husband to an illness about 30 years ago.

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

Two diametrically opposed court rulings have been handed down concerning accountability for the 2011 nuclear disaster. How ...

The government announced the appointment of Masami Okino to the Supreme Court, making her an unprecedented fourth female ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released Thursday but accuses ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong on Friday was charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger ...

As a practitioner of the traditional Japanese art of “rakugo” comic storytelling, Ramune goes out of her way to make people ...

Some 18,121 people with dementia were reported missing in 2024, down 918 from the previous year, and 491 have been found dead ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appears willing to dissolve the Lower House and call a snap election before opposition parties ...