Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach ...

Newly appointed Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki was noncommittal in addressing calls to allow married couples to choose their ...

Shinji Ishimaru, the surprise runner-up in the Tokyo gubernatorial election, announced on Nov. 12 that he plans to keep the ...

The first meeting between Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been scheduled for Nov. 15, ...

The Indonesian and Australian militaries began joint combat drills off Indonesia’s main island of Java on Wednesday with ...

Seven & i Holdings Co. is mulling a management buyout (MBO) to counter a takeover bid, The Asahi Shimbun learned on Nov. 13.

Several international airlines canceled flights to and from Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali on Wednesday as an ongoing ...

The first melted fuel sample recovered from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant arrived at a research facility ...

MITO—Ibaraki prefectural police on Nov. 12 arrested a Chinese national suspected of impersonating a celebrity in the biggest ...

TOKYO--Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by positive ...

Tokyo prosecutors have received papers on Stefan Kaufmann, the sacked CEO of medical equipment manufacturer Olympus Corp. who ...

More than two dozen world leaders are delivering remarks at the United Nations' annual climate conference Wednesday, with ...