A northern city plans to promote Niigata Prefecture’s many local specialties--including its snow--at the Osaka Kansai Expo ...

The once-accessible process of designing a custom home is turning into a luxury option as Japan's carpenters join the growing ...

Asian benchmarks mostly rose Tuesday, echoing a rally on Wall Street after President Donald Trump relaxed some of his tariffs, for now at least, and as stress from within the U.S. bond market seemed ...

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

BANGKOK—China's Xi is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of “stability and certainty.

The humble rice ball, eaten in Japan for thousands of years, is seemingly more popular now than ever, with specialty ...

SEOUL—The United States flew long-range B-1B bombers in a show of force against North Korea on Tuesday, days after the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to resist a U.S.-led ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

NAGOYA—Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) plans to add luxurious, semi-private seating areas to the Tokaido Shinkansen by ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission issued a cease-and-desist order to Google LLC on April 15 to stop forcing smartphone manufacturers to pre-install only its Google Search app.

Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa brought a powerful recruiting pitch with him last year when he flew to India.