A Hong Kong court began hearing final arguments Monday in the landmark national security trial of former pro-democracy ...

When she was in junior high school in Gunma Prefecture, a single remark from the back of the classroom cut Rurika Hasegawa ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

Japan’s struggling national hockey team of disabled players has run into a new problem that threatens to put its Winter ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s use of the word “remorse” in his speech marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

In his speeches at the memorial ceremonies held in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

A recent spate of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries that were improperly discarded prompted the industry ministry on Aug.

Chinese media representatives swarmed around a small-statured man as he apologized before a memorial monument on the ...

SEOUL--Torrential rain battered South Korea’s greater capital region for a second day Thursday, leaving at least one person ...

A photo of several Kyushu Shinkansen trains lined up on elevated track in an early morning “evacuation operation” during a ...

Two people were feared dead and four others were missing after heavy rain pounded northern parts of the main island of Kyushu ...

Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living ...