Former Major League Baseball pitcher Kenta Maeda, 37, who has now signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, held a press ...

The government lifted a subsequent earthquake advisory for off the coast of Hokkaido and Sanriku at midnight Monday, ending ...

Berlin-based writer Yoko Tawada was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial prize in Germany for a person of letters who ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average dropped more than 1% on Tuesday, weighed down by declines in chip and other artificial ...

A fire broke out at a sauna facility in the Akasaka district of Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Monday, leaving two customers dead.

Taiwan’s global credibility is on the line and parliament should withdraw a series of laws the government opposes, President ...

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai), decided ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurred off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture at around 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday. No tsunami was ...

A father and son are suspected by officials to have killed 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where ...

A complex combining an art museum and a library has opened in Taichung, central Taiwan, becoming Taiwan’s first facility ...

More than 70,000 residents of the Palestinian territory of Gaza have died from Israel’s military operations. It is unbearable to see cities reduced to ruins by airstrikes and other attacks.

A Hong Kong opinion leader who was a leading critic of China has been found guilty in court. The current situation in which China is taking away freedoms and suppressing free speech in Hong Kong is ...