BEIJING--Starbucks China will lower the prices of some of its iced drinks by an average of 5 yuan ($0.70) across the country, ...

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning sailed through waters east of the island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean for the first ...

BEIJING--U.S.-China trade talks in London this week are expected to take up a series of fresh disputes that have buffeted ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sparked controversy on June 7 during a visit to Maebashi, by making remarks that some ...

KITAYAMA, Wakayama Prefecture--Thrill-seekers take note: The season for white water rafting on the Kitayamagawa river is now ...

One week after resigning from the Japan Sumo Association, retired yokozuna great Hakuho said he isn't leaving the sport ...

Four Self-Defense Force members were slightly injured in an explosion on June 9 while handling unexploded bombs at a storage ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

SEOUL--A Seoul court said on Monday it will indefinitely postpone a trial of President Lee Jae-myung on charges of violating ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on June 9 that undercover police officers identified a suspect in a “yami ...

Beyond Yamashina, a district in southeastern Kyoto, I reached Nanzenji, a venerable Zen Buddhist temple. There, within the ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...