The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Friday and revised up its assessment on consumption, signaling its confidence ...

China is set to ease its blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports, which has been in place for more than a year since the ...

More than 50 Chinese residents gathered in Tokyo on Sept. 19 to mourn a Japanese boy who was fatally stabbed in China’s ...

Author and artist Saneatsu Mushanokoji (1885-1976), who is remembered for his many words of wisdom, lived to be 90.

TAIPEI--Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious ...

TOKUSHIMA--A team led by a medical student is upgrading an app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the cries of ...

KYOTO--Researchers here say they developed a highly accurate method to detect early signs of pancreatic cancer using ...

LONDON--Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped ...

While traveling at approximately 315 kph, two carriages of a Shinkansen running between Furukawa and Sendai stations in ...

BEIJING--China on Wednesday announced sanctions on American companies selling arms to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which ...

A Hong Kong court sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law on Thursday, including a ...

SYDNEY--Asian shares extended their rally on Friday, bathing in the afterglow of an outsized interest rate cut in the United ...