BEIJING--China will allow visa-free entry for nationals of five Latin American countries for one year to boost closer ...

HIROSHIMA—Hiroshima city on May 15 decided to notify Taiwan about the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony, breaking with its ...

NAGASAKI—Eighty years after the atomic bomb destroyed one of the bells at Urakami Cathedral here, the pair will ring again ...

BEIJING--Chinese worker Liu Shengzun lost two jobs in just one month as U.S. import tariffs shot up to triple digits in April ...

Japan's economy shrank for the first time in a year in the March quarter at a faster pace than expected, data showed on ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of ...

Japan's three largest banking groups posted record annual net profit in the last financial year, benefitting from increased ...

Mio Ikeda stumbled across a future hit product when she discovered “firm tofu” at U.S. supermarkets in 2018 soon after she ...

The inaugural Music Awards Japan (MAJ) ceremonies will be held on May 21 and 22, with hopes it will gain the prestige of the ...

What does it truly mean to be poor? Or perhaps the more pressing question is this: What does it mean to be rich?

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...