South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping have affirmed their close cooperation for a successful ...

A company in northeastern Japan that bought rice from government stockpiles shipped the crop to Tokyo by Shinkansen bullet ...

Japan's Defense Minister Nakatani Gen has apologized for a dud bomb explosion in the southern prefecture of Okinawa that ...

Matcha green tea is extending its fan base beyond Japan. An ambitious producer in the country's southwest is making a pitch ...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has disclosed that North Korea is building a new nuclear-related facility ...

A UN survey shows that more than half of people without their ideal number of children cite economic instability as the main ...

An American professor's mission to replace a church bell destroyed in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki started with an ...

Iran plans to make a counterproposal to a plan presented by the United States in talks over Tehran's nuclear development.

Japan's Defense Minister Nakatani Gen says the government has asked China for consideration following the dispatch of both of ...

Matsunoo Taisha is the guardian Shinto shrine to Kyoto's west. In April and May, the deities are carried through the ...

How will Pope Leo XIV, the first US pontiff, lead amid global turmoil? And what might his relationship with Asia look like?

The seasonal rain front and developed rainclouds brought intermittent downpours to southwestern Japan on Tuesday morning.