The health ministry on Sept. 18 blamed health problems that occurred after people ingested Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.’s ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for a second straight month in August, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, despite signs of ...

TOKYO/TAIPEI--A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time on Wednesday, Japan’s defense ...

Tokyoites continued sweltering in the intense heat wave on Sept. 18 as a high temperature record dating more than 80 years ...

YOKOHAMA--The Yokohama District Court on Sept. 17 handed a suspended sentence to a Thai restaurant worker who fatally stabbed ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election will likely be decided in a runoff, an Asahi Shimbun survey shows ...

BANGKOK--Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have claimed at ...

BEIRUT--Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting ...

NEW TAIPEI, Taiwan--Taiwan’s Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the pagers used in the detonations in Lebanon had not been made by ...

To spread awareness in society, the Japanese Association of Sociology for Human Liberation announced on Sept. 15 that over a ...

This past spring, the Oxford English Dictionary added 23 words of Japanese origin, including “donburi” and “okonomiyaki.” ...