OSAKA—Passers-by near JR Osaka Station and Hankyu Osaka-Umeda Station had a bizarre start to the day when they were met with the sight of roughly 10 meters of a massive underground pipe sticking out ...

China’s domestic passenger car sales fell 34.2% in February from a year earlier, an industry association said Wednesday, reflecting weakening demand as some trade-in subsidies are phased out.

Chinese government agencies and state-owned enterprises ‌have warned staff in recent days against installing artificial ⁠intelligence agent OpenClaw on ⁠office devices for security reasons, according ...

Breaking with a long tradition of civilian leadership at the National Defense Academy, the government has appointed the former top uniformed officer of the Self-Defense Forces as the academy’s ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter observed tests of strategic cruise missiles fired from a warship, state media reported Wednesday, as North Korea threatened responses to ...

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi plans to visit the Philippines and Indonesia in early May, where he is expected to discuss ...

DANDONG/SEOUL/SINGAPORE--When Kim Jong Un arrived by armored train in Beijing for a military parade in September, the ...

Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run ...

The Denso Airybees volleyball team in the women’s SV League travels four hours by bullet train to play their “home” games, part of an extended transition that aims to revitalize disaster-stricken ...

Defending champion Japan completed an unbeaten group stage at the World Baseball Classic, beating the Czech Republic 9-0 at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday night behind a nine-run eighth inning capped by ...

The opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito have called off a planned merger of assembly members and instead will field their own candidates in the unified local elections in ...

NAGASAKI--The Chinese Consulate General here has decided not to hold its annual “hanami” cherry blossom viewing party, a move that likely reflects strained bilateral relations.