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SIEM REAP, Cambodia—En Poy was minding cattle in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in Cambodia when he set off his first land mine.
SEOUL--South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called on Saturday for talks with North Korea to pursue peaceful coexistence, saying Seoul would …
WASHINGTON--President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it dec…
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the…
Look up “yohai” in Kojien, one of Japan’s best-known and most authoritative dictionaries, and it defines the word as meaning to pay reverence fr…
Four Cabinet members visited Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the anniversary of the end of World War II, although Prime Minist…
A new streamlined court process in Japan is helping victims of online defamation identify anonymous posters and has triggered a surge in legal p…
HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka Prefecture--A rail operator here is converting a warehouse into an accommodation facility at its rolling stock depot that in…
The average asking prices of pre-owned apartments in central Tokyo dropped for the first time in 26 months amid a glut of unsold properties.
KAUAI ISLAND, Hawaii--On a recent day in mid-May, Japanese researchers were sowing rice seeds on a farm in a district close to the east coast of…
Japan Airlines Co. is offering an in-flight meal whose popularity stems largely from a company in the ground transportation industry.
KYOTO—When Kimito Toda appeared, he was a total departure from the person I remembered from more than three decades ago, with his head shaved an…
WARSAW—A Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime min…
DETROIT—Detroit’s automakers plan to argue to the Trump administration that its proposals for a revised North American trade deal could cost th…
WASHINGTON—The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental h…
“You managed to become a parent. But you’re not a man who can truly become one.”
NAGASAKI—Nagasaki marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Aug. 9 with officials and survivors issuing urgent pleas for nuclear…
PENGHU—Taiwan’s military simulated repelling a Chinese air landing assault on the strategically vital Penghu Islands on Monday, and will later…