It was an extremely insensitive comment that dismissed out of hand the efforts made by the people of Okinawa and others to ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pushing back his deadline for an agreement over U.S. tariffs to early July, apparently ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s embattled conservative party canceled then reinstated the presidential candidacy of Kim Moon Soo within ...

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GENEVA--The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered “a great deal of productivity” in resolving differences ...

MANILA--Even though he is detained thousands of kilometers (miles) away, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is among ...

Investors welcomed the conciliatory tone at U.S.-China trade talks this weekend aimed at cooling a trade war between the ...

Shopkeepers wait for customers at the main bazaar, a day after the ceasefire between Indian and Pakistan was announced, in ...

A fish species known as the Great Blue Spotted Mudskipper that inhabits tidal mudflats in the Sea of Ariake in Kyushu has ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...