OSAKA—An eviction order was carried out in Osaka’s Kamagasaki district, the largest town for day laborers in Japan, eliciting ...

AKITA—A bizarre standoff between police and a marauding bear holed up in a supermarket here finally ended with the animal’s ...

MANILA--President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Monday the reported presence of a Russian submarine in the Philippine’s ...

Asia’s largest manufacturing economies stepped up activity in November, with China’s factories extending their recovery ...

USJ announced it will open a “Donkey Kong Country” area themed on the world of Donkey Kong on Dec. 11. It was originally ...

Marking her 23rd birthday on Dec. 1, Princess Aiko fondly recalled the first trip she made outside Tokyo alone this autumn as ...

MINAMI-BOSO, Chiba Prefecture--A soft-serve milk ice cream topped with generous slices of raw whale meat. Anyone? Hanamaru ...

TAIPEI--War has no winners and peace is priceless, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Saturday in Hawaii after visiting a ...

Asami Ueno’s budding legacy continues to grow after the 23-year-old became the first Japanese woman to win a major ...

Acclaimed Taiwanese fiction writer Li Kotomi came out publicly as transgender after social media posts forced the issue by ...

SAITAMA--Vietnamese student volunteers are working with Saitama prefectural police to identify crime-related posts on social ...

Lockers at train stations had been largely deserted and rendered useless during the commuter-depleted COVID-19 pandemic.