OITA—Firefighters continued to battle a blaze in Oita city’s Saganoseki district on Nov. 19 after a body was found in the ...

SINGAPORE--The dollar was riding high on Thursday after notching its sharpest gain in six weeks as Fed minutes made a ...

Pirated Japanese publications available for free on websites worldwide cause an estimated 8.5 trillion yen ($55.2 billion) in ...

The government is preparing a comprehensive economic stimulus package worth more than 20 trillion yen ($128 billion), ...

Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi attended a Swedish-language class at the University of Osaka on Nov. 19 to ...

A planned trip by some Panamanian lawmakers to Taiwan has unleashed the latest diplomatic spat with China as the Central ...

MANILA--A Philippine court convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges ...

Images of “diplomatic superiority” shown by Chinese state media have exacerbated the Japan-China feud over Prime Minister ...

Scallop producers, hit by China’s two-year ban on Japanese seafood lifted just months ago, remain largely unfazed by the ...

Malaysia has suspended operations at a rare earth site and two tin mines in western Perak state following an investigation ...

The Tokyo High Court on Nov. 19 awarded 39 million yen ($247,000) in damages to the family of a Nepalese man who died in ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks to ozeki ...