SEOUL—About 67,000 visitors took in traditional and modern culture from South Korea and Japan in an exchange festival here ...

The governor of Tokyo announced plans to prohibit construction of utility poles at new housing plots to accelerate ...

When Mikiharu Tsujita launched Full Count in 1992, he did so with a singular, almost romantic ambition: to re-create the ...

KYOTO—When the phone call came at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 8, Susumu Kitagawa thought it was just another annoying telemarketer ...

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has called for a top-level meeting with two other opposition ...

OSAKA—A ceremony held on Oct. 13 gave a positive message to the world from the Osaka Kansai Expo, an event that covered 184 ...

MANILA--A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored ...

Furusawa Onsen is a small hot spring inn with only seven guest rooms operating in the city where Hachiko, the world’s most ...

The Imperial Household Agency has released its official biography of the late Empress Nagako, known posthumously as Kojun, ...

Super-sized servings of tasty dishes at a throwaway price sound too good to be true, especially with the cost of living going ...

MATSUYAMA--Global warming forced mikan farmer Junichiro Nishihara here into growing more heat-resistant avocados.

RAUSU, Hokkaido--A silent killer is stalking the wild beauty of the Shiretoko Peninsula, a World Natural Heritage site. The ...