The ruling coalition has agreed to consider a tax proposal from an opposition party to help it form a majority in the Diet.

Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi ...

A group of service workers at Narita International Airport here is letting air travelers know that customer harassment will ...

A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

BEIJIN--China is expected to announce much-anticipated steps to boost its flagging economy Friday at the end of this week's ...

NAGOYA--A team of researchers has developed a brain-training system for the early detection of, and recovery from, a state of ...

The Michelin Guide Tokyo 2025 once again shows that the Japanese capital continues to offer gastronomic delights to ...

With the distant sea in the background, majestic buildings jut up from the base of a gently sloping hillside that was part of ...

Tokyo officials were overjoyed after the Japanese capital was named the world’s best large city in a leading U.S. travel ...

SEOUL-- A fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island Friday, leaving at least two people dead ...

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan ...

Set net fishing for salmon, where nets are dropped along migrating fish routes, is at its seasonal peak off the Shiretoko ...