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 ...

A news video originally broadcast by TV Asahi Corp. about Kurds living in Japan was heavily edited and uploaded on social ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Starbucks said Monday it is forming a joint venture with Chinese investment firm Boyu Capital to operate Starbucks stores in China.