The Yakumo express service introduced by West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) in April won the top prize at the 23rd Japan ...

AKITA--Korean-American Jim Chae never forgot the cherished memories from the time his family visited an onsen resort in Akita ...

Japan’s space agency halted an engine combustion test of its flagship Epsilon S rocket here Nov. 26 after an apparent ...

Daito Trust Construction Co. will start a university course in Indonesia starting in August 2025 to nurture future engineers ...

Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko are set to embark on an official visit to Turkey commemorating the 100th ...

Hong Kong’s top court on Tuesday upheld earlier rulings that favored subsidized housing benefits and equal inheritance rights ...

Kyodo News corrected an article that had erroneously said Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice foreign minister, visited ...

Asian shares mostly declined on Tuesday as worries spread over President-elect Donald Trump’s comment that he plans to impose ...

MANILA--Philippine authorities handed a subpoena to Vice President Sara Duterte’s office Tuesday, inviting her to answer ...

The Fair Trade Commission opened an investigation into Amazon Japan on Nov. 26 on suspicion the e-commerce giant violated ...

SEOUL--A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining more than 20 kilograms (44 ...

It surely wasn’t too much to ask that the judiciary would help mitigate, even if by just a little, the ear-splitting noise ...