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SEOUL—North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, criticized in a statement Japan’s recent test-firing of a Tomaha…
TAIPEI—Taiwan’s government said on Wednesday it had searched dozens of locations and interviewed more than 100 people in an investigation into 1…
KUMAMOTO--Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Aug. 3 pledged all-out government support for earthquake-affected communities in her first visit to K…
Store employees at Aeon Mall Kumamoto said they were allowed to return inside after evacuating from a massive earthquake, contrary to the compan…
Japan needs to adapt to the new methods of warfare like drones and artificial intelligence used in Ukraine and the Middle East and strengthen it…
A Nippon Paper Industries Co. employee recounted the shock he felt at the deaths of nine co-workers in the July 28 earthquake, which collapsed a…
Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. will open its first directly operated permanent flagship bar on July 2 in Tokyo’s Omotesando district.
More than a century after they were removed from their northern graves and carried across continents, seven Ainu ancestors began the long journe…
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, attended the 41st World Veterinary Association Congress in Tokyo, the first…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, swerving to deesc…
The seven-member South Korean boy band BTS performed together on stage for the first time since completing their mandatory military service.
SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reappointed as president of state affairs, state media KCNA reported on Monday, after the isolated…
TATEYAMA, Chiba Prefecture--Diver Hiroyuki Arakawa descends almost daily into the breathtakingly beautiful waters off the coast here, carrying a…
Teru Shimazu set foot in a new world when she was 41.
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is arranging to host South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung for a summit meeting in mid-January in her home…
BEIJING--A China Coast Guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a “rights enforcement patrol,” the Chi…
A senior Japanese diplomat will head to China on Monday, Japanese media reported, as Tokyo tries to calm an escalating diplomatic spat over Taiw…
A 50-percent nosedive in canned mackerel production in the past five years has turned what was once a go-to healthy budget food into a finicky m…