SYDNEY--Japanese stocks jumped and the yen fell on Thursday as the risk of further tightening in monetary policy this year ...

A slow-moving typhoon approaching Taiwan led to school and office closures for a third consecutive day Thursday, with ...

MIYAZAKI—Dangerous reminders of Miyazaki Airport's past as a former Imperial Japanese Navy air base during World War II ...

TOTTORI—Yoshiko Ishiba, the new first lady of Japan and the wife of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, has been a steadfast ...

Two Air Self-Defense Force C-2 transport aircraft departed from Miho Air Base in Tottori Prefecture on the morning of Oct. 3 ...

WASHINGTON--The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese ...

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period ...

With only about one month left before the U.S. presidential election and Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remaining locked in a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told U.S. President Joe Biden that he intends to further bolster the bilateral alliance ...

Rina Sasaki is a regular at a beauty salon in Osaka to have unsightly hair removed from her arms, legs and under her nose.

Residents of an island 200 kilometers south of central Tokyo have developed sightseeing rules to promote a peaceful ...

KYOTO--This city of temples, shrines and Zen gardens is so swamped with tourists that authorities initiated a program ...