Female free divers in the city of Wajima on the Sea of Japan coast have harvested seaweed at the start of the first regular ...

"Sazae" turban shells like to come ashore during moonlit nights. And the people of Yamagata Prefecture like to catch as many ...

The job hunting season has started in Japan for next year's high school graduates. A continued labor shortage is expected to ...

A massive explosion occurred at a chemical plant in India's southern state of Telangana on Monday. At least 36 people died ...

Inspectors in Thailand have concluded their probe into the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise during a March earthquake. The ...

A court in Manila has ruled that a former mayor is "undoubtedly a Chinese citizen," and disqualified her from holding public ...

A 10-year-old boy from Tokyo is among the people who are telling the stories of atomic bomb survivors in Japan.

The head of Hong Kong's government has vowed to keep society under tight control at a ceremony to mark the 28th anniversary ...

Japan's government has officially endorsed the basic plan on measures for an anticipated massive earthquake in the Nankai ...

A man who was stabbed in a high-rise commercial facility in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district has been pronounced dead after being ...

US President Donald Trump took to social media on Monday to say that Japan does not accept American rice imports.

One side of Japan's Mount Fuji has opened to climbers striking out for the peak from the mountain's fifth stage in Yamanashi ...