Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious ...

When Japanese writer Tsutomu Mizukami (1919–2004) was 9, he entered a Zen temple in Kyoto as a “kozo”—a novice monk who had ...

SEOUL--North Korea is suspending the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex that leader Kim Jong Un hailed it as “one of the ...

A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell ...

Yu Zidi of China is only 12 years old and will race at the world swimming championships later this month in Singapore.

Hunters shot and killed a brown bear early on July 18 in a residential neighborhood in Fukushima, Hokkaido, that is suspected ...

Nippon Steel Corp.’s acquisition of U. S. Steel required nerves of steel, which Eiji Hashimoto, the company’s chairman and ...

The minor opposition party Sanseito, which is projected to capture double-digit seats in the July 20 Upper House election, ...

As the global car market trends toward decarbonation, Japanese automakers are now struggling to regain lost ground in their ...

Japan sank into a trade deficit of 2.2 trillion yen ($15 billion) for the first six month of this year, according to ...

The transport ministry will consider making “unattended delivery” the standard service for door-to-door parcel distribution ...

WASHINGTON--American companies in China are reporting record-low new investment plans for this year and declining confidence ...