Hong Kong tightened prison rules, allowing authorities to restrict visits, including those by certain lawyers and religious ...

When Japanese writer Tsutomu Mizukami (1919–2004) was 9, he entered a Zen temple in Kyoto as a “kozo”—a novice monk who had ...

A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell ...

SEOUL--North Korea is suspending the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex that leader Kim Jong Un hailed it as “one of the ...

Japan sank into a trade deficit of 2.2 trillion yen ($15 billion) for the first six month of this year, according to ...

Yu Zidi of China is only 12 years old and will race at the world swimming championships later this month in Singapore.

HANOI--Asian countries are offering to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas in negotiations with the Trump administration as a ...

Hunters shot and killed a brown bear early on July 18 in a residential neighborhood in Fukushima, Hokkaido, that is suspected of being involved in the killing of a newspaper delivery man six days ...

HIROSHIMA—When car maker Mazda sneezes, everyone catches a cold, say people in its hometown of Hiroshima in western Japan, but these days, auto parts maker Yuji Yamaguchi fears a deep chill is on the ...

Kanagawa prefectural officials announced on July 17 that a woman in her 60s has contracted a tick-borne disease and believe ...

As the global car market trends toward decarbonation, Japanese automakers are now struggling to regain lost ground in their ...

Nippon Steel Corp.’s acquisition of U. S. Steel required nerves of steel, which Eiji Hashimoto, the company’s chairman and ...