KYOTO—The summer tradition of restaurants and eateries opening outdoor dining terraces that sit by the Kamogawa river began ...

TAIPEI--President Lai Ching-te will next week mark for the first time in Taiwan the end of World War II in Europe and ...

BOSTON--Tariffs weren’t on the agenda of this week’s Robotics Summit, where thousands of tech industry workers mingled with ...

Young women across Japan are leaving their rural hometowns bound for Tokyo in search of improved job prospects.

A majority of respondents in an annual nationwide poll continue to support constitutional revision, while a record-low ...

OSAKA--A man suspected of attempting to murder schoolchildren showed no signs of braking or slowing down when the vehicle he ...

YOKKAICHI, Mie Prefecture--With the rallying cry of “Open sesame,” Japan could do with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves right now. The fact is that Japan relies almost entirely on imports to ...

OSAKA--A man from Tokyo was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he deliberately drove his car into a group of ...

KYOTO—A decades-old underground water pipe ruptured in a central part of Kyoto, causing flooding and traffic congestion in ...

The Vietnam, India and Brunei pavilions have officially opened at the Osaka Kansai Expo, more than two weeks later than those ...

Firefighters on May 2 found a body believed to be the driver of a 2-ton truck that plunged into a sinkhole at an intersection ...

The town of Futaba, cohost to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, was entirely evacuated after the Great East ...