OITA—Firefighters continued to battle a blaze in Oita city’s Saganoseki district on Nov. 19 after a body was found in the ...

SINGAPORE--The dollar was riding high on Thursday after notching its sharpest gain in six weeks as Fed minutes made a ...

Pirated Japanese publications available for free on websites worldwide cause an estimated 8.5 trillion yen ($55.2 billion) in ...

The government is preparing a comprehensive economic stimulus package worth more than 20 trillion yen ($128 billion), ...

Former Ito Mayor Maki Takubo has announced that she will enter the upcoming mayoral election triggered by her own ouster.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party started discussions to revise Japan's national defense policy on Nov. 20 with a focus on ...

A planned trip by some Panamanian lawmakers to Taiwan has unleashed the latest diplomatic spat with China as the Central ...

Scallop producers, hit by China’s two-year ban on Japanese seafood lifted just months ago, remain largely unfazed by the ...

The Tokyo High Court on Nov. 19 awarded 39 million yen ($247,000) in damages to the family of a Nepalese man who died in ...

Malaysia has suspended operations at a rare earth site and two tin mines in western Perak state following an investigation ...

Images of “diplomatic superiority” shown by Chinese state media have exacerbated the Japan-China feud over Prime Minister ...

Unusual marine conditions have devastated farmed oysters in the Seto Inland Sea, prompting industry leaders to request ...