BEIJING--China will extend its visa-free entry policy for 45 countries including Japan, France, Germany and Spain to Dec. 31, ...

NAGOYA--A woman who has admitted to fatally slashing a mother in 1999 said she had been living in fear of arrest, but she has ...

Japanese publishing giant Kodansha Ltd. announced on Nov. 4 that it is opening a Hollywood-based production company that will ...

Representatives of the various parties in the Diet have begun questioning Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi about her first policy speech.

To fuel economic growth through public-private investments focused on economic security, the Takaichi administration ...

In the mid-1980s, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) was at the height of her power, I used to attend ...

Co-leader Fumitake Fujita of the Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin) announced he will stop outsourcing work to a company headed by his aide, following media reports alleging that public funds were ...

Officer-escorted deportations doubled year-on-year in the first three months of Japan’s Zero Illegal Foreign Residents Plan, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won praise in her country's parliament on Tuesday for a diplomatic debut that included ...

A man in his 60s who fell hard on his left shoulder in Tokyo managed to board a train that took him to the nearest station to ...

SEOUL--Kim Yong Nam, a longtime North Korean ceremonial head of state best known for his trademark propaganda-filled speeches ...

Singapore’s plan to preserve founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s home as a national monument was condemned by his youngest ...