The Diet passed three landmark bills on July 17 that were strongly pushed by Prime Minister Sanae Takachi that include ...

Tokyo-based crowdfunding company Ubugoe Inc. is withholding millions of yen in donations from at least six organizations that ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI—Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister said on Thursday his government has decided to close Taiwan’s ...

A final piece of the construction puzzle has been approved for the ultra-high-speed Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line project, ...

Annual deaths from COVID-19 continue to top 30,000 in Japan, even three years since the seriousness of the infectious disease was downgraded to the level of seasonal influenza. Elderly people are most ...

SEOUL—A South Korean court on Monday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to two years in prison for illegally receiving ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

A Japanese voice actor has sued the operator of TikTok, arguing that video postings using an AI-generated voice on the social media platform infringed on his rights to his voice. Kenjiro Tsuda, known ...

China and Xi are seen more favorably than the U.S. and Trump in many nations, new survey says ...

TOKYO/TAIPEI--The CEO of UFORCE, a Ukrainian producer of attack drones, flew to Tokyo in April with a pitch for Japanese officials and defense contractors: build thousands of our drones to defend ...

LONDON—King Charles III will not live at Buckingham Palace after the completion of a 10-year, 369 million-pound ($487 million) refurbishment program as the monarchy seeks to increase public access to ...

OSAKA—A carelessly tossed cigarette is the suspected cause of a huge fire in the Dotonbori entertainment district last year ...