YAMAGATA--Winter in Japan’s northern Tohoku region is often cast as a surreal spectacle concerning the Zao mountain ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a ⁠snap parliamentary election in the ‌first half of ‍February, ...

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire on Jan. 10 on Mount Ogiyama straddling the Yamanashi Prefecture cities of ...

The municipal assemblies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are urging the government to maintain its three non-nuclear principles of ...

While bear sightings and attacks have surged in northern Japan, wild deer are also causing a record number of traffic ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...

Japan banned the production and use of asbestos in 2006, but new health cases caused by the carcinogen continue to emerge ...

China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other’s rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And ...

Close aides to Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono were surprised by the apparent turnaround in his thinking about the Kurdish ...

WASHINGTON--U.S. President Donald Trump said “it’s up to” Chinese President Xi Jinping what China does on Taiwan, but that he ...

Two things can be true at once. K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture, and it has long been undercelebrated at ...

BEIJING--Chinese television showed footage of U.S.-indicted ⁠tycoon Chen Zhi being escorted by armed police after his ...