TOKYO--A Pokemon card game event planned for Saturday at a controversial shrine to Japan's war dead has been canceled and the ...

The Immigration Services Agency from Feb. 1 will end its practice of informing lawyers that their foreign clients will be deported within two months, a move criticized as a possible human rights ...

TOKYO/BEIJING--China may rethink its escalating pressure campaign on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi if she delivers a ...

The Osaka gathering was thanks to the “Adult Women’s Dormitory Project,” a group working to build just that for middle-aged ...

Kurd slogans, misinformation and counter-protests are featuring heavily in the mayoral election campaign in Kawaguchi, ...

When the cold reaches its harshest depth, the story “Niban Senji” (the second brew)—a classic piece from "rakugo," the ...

BEIJING--China’s main space contractor vowed to develop space tourism in the next five years, state media ⁠reported on ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged to abide by tradition and not enter a sumo ring, where women are prohibited.

Tokyo police arrested a man in connection with a Japanese blog that is part of an international investigation into child ...

Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) is campaigning on a strongly hawkish and conservative platform for the Feb. 8 Lower ...

Hong Kong police arrested six men and women, including three Japanese nationals, over a robbery apparently connected to a gang’s tear gas attack at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, according to local media ...

BANGKOK--China executed 11 members of a Myanmar-based family crime syndicate that killed 14 Chinese citizens and ran scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said.