TAIPEI--The South African government has given Taiwan a deadline of the end of March to relocate the island’s de facto ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

A bureau chief who oversaw police investigations into Aum Shinrikyo said he feels responsible for the “indecision” on a crackdown that allowed the cult to commit its deadly gas attack in Tokyo in 1995 ...

Residents and businesses in eastern Saitama Prefecture were again asked to make sacrifices concerning water use as the rescue ...

The poem at the beginning was originally a lengthy work exceeding 100 lines when it was first published. It contains this ...

Shohei Ohtani pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in May is “about right,” manager Dave Roberts said Saturday at the team’s ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, a crucial ...

KYOTO--Geisha scattered roasted soybeans to exorcise “evil spirits” and bring good fortune in the year ahead during a ...

Neighboring municipalities have grown irate over a surprise plan to build an interim storage facility here for spent nuclear ...

Walking with an Akita Inu dog,” a fitness program to help people enjoy nature through trail walking, is proving popular here.

If you are afraid of heights, please bear with it for a little while,” the train driver called out while blowing shimmering ...

Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated high-speed rail technologies, it has made ...