The Liberal Democratic Party’s parliamentary group in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly said on Jan. 23 that more than half of ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast have signed a formal ...

A smelting furnace exploded Sunday at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 ...

A rather isolated community of large palatial buildings is nestled in a mountainous area of Gapyeong, Gyeonggi province, ...

The government officially decided on its basic energy plan at a Feb. 18 Cabinet meeting, outlining a mid- to long-term policy ...

Booming inbound tourism and another blistering summer combined to send rice retail prices skyrocketing at supermarkets across ...

Administrative organs are required to create and retain documents so that their decisions and actions can be examined later.

Unaffiliated voters shifted away from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the Oct. 27 Lower House election and fueled the ...

In a hugely significant policy shift for pacifist Japan, the government approved revisions that will allow for the export of ...

The number of children under 15 years old in Japan is 13.66 million, 350,000 fewer than in 2024 and the lowest on record, the ...

A university in Japan announced a major breakthrough in the complete farming of highly endangered Japanese eels, claiming a ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s ...