The elite Central Committee of China’s ruling Communist Party will hold a closed-door meeting from Monday to Thursday to ...

Power and water outages have continued in some areas of the Izu island chain, south of Tokyo, following two consecutive ...

Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito made clear that his party would not have left the coalition if Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

China has increased the maximum hiring age for some civil service positions for the first time in three decades, from 35 to ...

Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi held back-to-back meetings on Oct. 15 with leaders of three opposition ...

KYOTO—City officials are attempting to combat a return of graffiti marring Arashiyama’s bamboo forest, one of Kyoto’s most ...

The U.S. government has seized more than $14 billion in bitcoin and charged the founder of a Cambodian conglomerate in a ...

WASHINGTON--Major Chinese airlines on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to abandon a plan to bar them from flying over ...

MILWAUKEE--Shohei Ohtani’s first NL Championship Series mound appearance for the Dodgers won’t come until Game 4 in Los ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, 71, of Hungary. I was intrigued to learn that ...

Alfasado Inc., a subsidiary of The Asahi Shimbun Co., has opened a website to make the newspaper’s coverage more accessible ...

A 22-year-old woman threw herself from an eighth-floor apartment in Tokyo while she was high on 1D-LSD, investigative sources ...