SYDNEY-- Asian shares tracked Wall Street higher on Friday as still-strong U.S. economic data and robust corporate earnings ...

A Chinese university announced the expulsion of a female student for “damaging national dignity” after she was accused of ...

Japan’s shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt ...

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

Hunched over his workbench, Tan Chin Seng shaves the wooden top plate of a violin, removing thin layers with slow, deliberate ...

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

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced on July 18 that the rainy season has likely ended in the Kanto-Koshin, Hokuriku and ...

The estimated cost of equipping the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-15 fighter jets with “standoff missiles” capable of hitting enemy bases has surged to more than 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion), sources ...

Wall Street rose to records on Thursday following better-than-expected updates on the economy and a mixed set of profit ...

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

An Upper House election candidate from the rising opposition party Sanseito is championing a nuclear-armed Japan, a ...

SEOUL--A new K-pop boy band made their global debut on Friday with two members who defected from North Korea and an album ...