TOKYO/BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey--Japan’s tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa held "in-depth exchanges" over the phone with U.S.

The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, ...

I saw an interesting scene in “Little Women” (2022), a South Korean serial TV drama, showing a woman released from a ...

Vertical solar panels, while now a rare sight on farmland in Japan, in this case a rice paddy, look set to transform the ...

OSAKA--Nayuta Sato has been playing the piano since he was 4 and always wanted to perform with his mother, who couldn’t play ...

SAPPORO--Shinichiro Ando, the victim of a vicious bear attack a few years ago, says insufficient support measures have ...

MITO--Yasuko Yasuhara, once a top party hostess in this Ibaraki prefectural capital, made an inevitable career shift as she ...

Seeking relief from the brutal heat, I wandered into a botanical garden and found a cluster of “hangesho” (Chinese lizard's ...

NATO has set a new goal for member nations regarding defense spending, including related expenses, by raising the objective ...

After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

OSAKA—The master pyrotechnicians behind the Omagari fireworks festival, Japan’s most prestigious fireworks competition, lit ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of officially recognized survivors has fallen ...