China’s national security authorities in Hong Kong and the city’s police launched their first publicly known joint operation, ...

Japan’s Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, was welcomed on Wednesday by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...

Japan will hold a tender for tariff-free imported staple rice this month, earlier than the usual auction in September, to ...

Mysterious geometric patterns dubbed “underwater crop circles” are appearing on the seafloor as the spawning season of a ...

Official campaigning for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election with all 127 seats at stake started on June 13, with the ...

TORONTO--U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive Sunday for a Group of Seven summit in a country he has suggested should be ...

Markets in Asia opened lower early Friday while oil prices surged after Israel attacked Iran’s capital amid the ramping up tensions over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, have finalized a plan to provide cash to the public ...

More families are wading into terraced paddy fields across Japan for the back-breaking work of growing rice under “part-time ...

Asian shares were trading mixed early Thursday after Wall Street’s rally stalled as investors appeared not to react much to ...

PARIS--A sushi chef for only a few years, Chizuko Kimura became so adept at the craft that her restaurant here won a Michelin ...

An Air India plane bound for London crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 ...