The last three years have been the toughest for Xie Dandan and her family during more than a decade cultivating one of ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average sank on Friday, sending the index to its biggest weekly drop since early April, as heavyweight ...

Nigeria will impose fines of up to 12 million naira ($8,200) and jail terms of up to 10 years on traffickers of ivory, ...

The government intends to work on revitalizing local bookstores, which play a vital role in preserving culture, Prime ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun’s three headquarters in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the Tokyo District Court ...

Leading courier companies are taking extra steps and even delaying deliveries to protect drivers amid the ongoing spate of ...

Fourth-dan Go player Sumire Nakamura, 16, won her first title in an official tournament in South Korea on Thursday. She beat ...

Tourists flocked to see the contrast between waterfalls, autumn leaves and a river at “Shiraito no Taki Drive In” in Tozawa ...

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years, said ...

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said on Friday. It ...

Recitations of “yukar” heroic epics, considered the essence of Ainu culture, along with sword dances and the “tapkar” ...

YAMAGATA — A bear entered a hot spring inn and stayed there on Friday in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture. Police were contacted ...