Business sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers has improved slightly, according to a survey by Japan’s central bank ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation ...

A rural police station is counting on older residents to persuade their grandchildren to come back to their hometown and work ...

KYOTO--With women’s universities across Japan increasingly shifting toward coeducation or shutting their doors, Kyoto Women’s ...

The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ...

Japan’s tax revenue for fiscal 2024 will likely exceed 75 trillion yen ($522 billion) for the first time, sources said, but ...

OSAKA—The master pyrotechnicians behind the Omagari fireworks festival, Japan’s most prestigious fireworks competition, lit ...

Seeking relief from the brutal heat, I wandered into a botanical garden and found a cluster of “hangesho” (Chinese lizard's ...

A Japanese research team has discovered a cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive, terminal ...

MANILA--Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks added to their records with the close of a second straight winning ...

The climbing season on Mount Fuji kicked off on July 1 with the opening of the Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Only five of 100 major companies surveyed favor a consumption tax cut as pushed by opposition parties in the runup to the ...