Despite the long existence of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, only 15 percent of Japanese believe the United States “will ...

NAGASAKI—About a thousand people attended a memorial Mass at the Urakami Cathedral here on April 27 for Pope Francis, who had ...

I wonder how many poems have now been dedicated to Akiko Baba, a poetry critic in The Asahi Shimbun’s Asahi Kadan tanka ...

A narrow, attic-like space lies directly below the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, showing the ...

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, also appeared in the TV footage. The launch, which took place on Friday at ...

Mao Saigo was shaking with nervousness before her birdie putt on the first hole of a five-way playoff Sunday in the Chevron ...

A new tour of the famed Akiyoshido cave system here, one of the largest limestone networks in Japan, offers visitors the ...

The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to China at ...

Around 170,000 tons of sesame were consumed in Japan in 2023, but only about 80 tons were produced domestically for a ...

The government on April 23 started 2025 operations of both its ordinary and special heatstroke alert systems to warn the ...

NAHA—Less than a week after joint Japan-U.S. anti-crime patrols started in Okinawa Prefecture, police here on April 23 announced that two U.S. Marine Corps members have been accused of sexual ...