HIROSHIMA—Hiroshima city on May 15 decided to notify Taiwan about the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, breaking with its ...

Japan's economy shrank for the first time in a year in the March quarter at a faster pace than expected, data showed on ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

Japan's three largest banking groups posted record annual net profit in the last financial year, benefitting from increased ...

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she ...

The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the ...

NAHA--A U.S. military helicopter flying over northern Okinawa Prefecture accidentally dropped a bag containing a flammable ...

It’s a cold, wet morning and frigid air is seeping through the open doors of a college gymnasium in Tokyo. But that doesn’t ...

Nearly half of people who read false rumors or misinformation online believe the contents are true, according to the internal ...

TOKYO--Japan’s top automaker Toyota announced a partnership with U.S. autonomous driving technology company Waymo on Wednesday. The move was somewhat anticipated, as the use of such technology ...

Higher tariffs on U.S. imports of products from China appear to be taking a toll on the world’s second-largest economy, according to monthly surveys of Chinese factory managers released Wednesday.

SEOUL--An estimated 4,700 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting alongside Russia against Ukrainian forces, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday.