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TOSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture–A series of earthquakes that have rattled remote islands and put residents on edge here ...
BANGKOK--A U.S. judge has ruled that China’s Huawei Technologies, a leading telecoms equipment company, must face criminal ...
Campaigning officially started on July 3 for an Upper House election that could further upend the power structure in Japanese ...
NAHA—In a rare and significant move, senior officials from the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa Prefecture formally ...
NEW YORK--U.S. stocks ticked higher on Wednesday to hit another all-time high. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% and set a record for the ...
BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...
Hong Kong’s government on Wednesday proposed a registration system that would recognize same-sex partnerships formed overseas, granting such couples more rights in the city.
The Democratic Party for the People modified language in its Upper House election manifesto that was criticized as xenophobic by voices both inside and outside the party.
Eleven individuals, including three Japanese nationals, were sentenced to prison here over chemical pollution caused by a ...
Police in Tokyo are waging a charm offensive to stop foreign nationals falling victim to elaborate fraud scams as well as ...
The central government has designated 723 municipalities in 30 prefectures for ramping up disaster mitigation measures based ...
Suffering from steadily shrinking hauls, fishing communities around Japan are targeting something that is much more in ...