Yuriko Koike, the conservative governor of Tokyo, was heading for a victorious third term on July 7 in a crowded election ...

Postage rates for ordinary mail are set to rise by 30 percent from Oct. 1, the first increase in 30 years, to bring Japan ...

DHARAMSALA, India--In a monastery beneath snow-capped mountains in northern India, the Buddhist monk entrusted with ...

Renewable energy sources accounted for 25 percent of Japan’s overall electricity output in 2023, but the country’s standing ...

YAMAGATA--It’s no joke. An ordinance that encourages residents to break out in a happy laugh everyday passed the prefectural ...

Born and raised in Japan, a 20-year-old college student anxiously awaited the response from a job-search website for new ...

Heatstroke alerts were in place for Tokyo and 19 prefectures in western and eastern Japan on July 7, a day after two elderly ...

The head of the Maritime Self-Defense Force intends to resign to take responsibility for a spate of incidents where ...

MANILA--A former Philippine opposition senator accused ex-President Rodrigo Duterte of plundering state coffers in a criminal ...

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by ...

Under the banner of “fundamentally strengthening defense capabilities,” the government has been ramping up defense spending ...

LOS ANGELES--Shohei Ohtani and Miguel Vargas hit solo shots in the eighth inning, Will Smith became the first Los Angeles player to homer in four consecutive at-bats in a decade, and the Dodgers beat ...