TAIPEI/TOKYO--Taiwan has lifted all restrictions on food imports from Japan that were introduced after the Fukushima nuclear ...

Lawmakers and support groups for women are calling for legal revisions to the anti-prostitution law to punish patrons and ...

An aquarium worker here has created an affordable, compact pressurized container that can restore the health of deep-sea fish ...

Minuscule airborne plastic particles are spreading to all corners of the planet, penetrating deep into human bodies and ...

Jinbocho, Tokyo’s famed district for secondhand books, a stucco building stands out with bookshelves covering its outer walls ...

OITA—Firefighters continued to battle a blaze in Oita city’s Saganoseki district on Nov. 19 after a body was found in the ...

JOHANNESBURG--The first Group of 20 summit to be held in Africa opens on Saturday with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some of the long-standing problems that have afflicted the ...

NIIGATA—Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi announced on Nov. 21 that he has approved the restart of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s ...

Philippine police and other law enforcement teams were deployed to arrest 18 suspects in a projects that has sparked huge ...

While riot police officers are authorized to shoot bears to combat an alarming rise in bear-related injuries and deaths ...

The approval rating for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet remains among the highest in Japanese history, as her ...

South Korean Kim Yong-ho thought he would die within seconds after a 200-kilogram (441-pound) industrial press at a Hyundai ...