Record temperatures in Japan have curbed matcha green tea production this year, straining supplies and driving prices to all-time highs amid booming global demand for the trendy beverage, farmers and ...

NAHA—In a rare and significant move, senior officials from the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa Prefecture formally ...

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 ...

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 ...

TSU--For the time being, the Bank of Japan will hold off on interest rate hikes while it closely monitors developments in the ...

LONDON—Akira Otani’s gangland thriller centered around two women is the first Japanese work to win the translation division ...

BANGKOK--A Myanmar military fighter jet crashed in a combat zone in the country’s east, according to an anti-military ...

A drone-based tsunami detection is taking shape along this famed surfing coastline to ensure a speedy evacuation of ...

The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that he will be reincarnated and that his non-profit institution will have the sole ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...