Night owls this weekend can enjoy one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, with the Geminids blazing trails in ...

Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steelmaker, expects its annual global crude steel production capacity to rise to at least 100 ...

The Bank of Japan will likely maintain a pledge next week to keep raising interest rates, but stress the pace of further ...

KYOTO—The character for “kuma” (bear) is the kanji of the year, a not unexpected choice that narrowly edged out the character ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking leap in identifying a set of gilt‑bronze armor fittings adorned with an intricate ...

A fallen tree caused a single-car train to derail and plunge off a bridge in northern Japan early on Dec. 12, injuring the ...

It is infuriating to be treated unfairly. You might let it go at first. But later, your anger will start a slow burn while ...

Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don’t return to China, a friend warned. You’re now a fugitive.

Black Box Diaries,” a documentary in which Japanese journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault case and the ...

The information added another layer of shock and sadness for the parents. The acquaintance, the last person to see their son ...

A Japanese research team has confirmed a new clione species first found about a decade ago that is believed to have evolved ...

The day three “grim reapers” of the train world will join their brethren in the scrapyard is fast approaching after decades ...