Man is compared to a thinking reed, “ashi” in Japanese while the humble octopus is often likened to thinking legs, also “ashi ...

A group of service workers at Narita International Airport here is letting air travelers know that customer harassment will ...

BEIJIN--China is expected to announce much-anticipated steps to boost its flagging economy Friday at the end of this week's ...

With the distant sea in the background, majestic buildings jut up from the base of a gently sloping hillside that was part of ...

NAGOYA--A team of researchers has developed a brain-training system for the early detection of, and recovery from, a state of ...

Tokyo officials were overjoyed after the Japanese capital was named the world’s best large city in a leading U.S. travel ...

A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

SEOUL-- A fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island Friday, leaving at least two people dead ...

The Michelin Guide Tokyo 2025 once again shows that the Japanese capital continues to offer gastronomic delights to ...

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan ...

Set net fishing for salmon, where nets are dropped along migrating fish routes, is at its seasonal peak off the Shiretoko ...

A tiny amount of melted nuclear fuel was retrieved for the first time the other day from one of the reactors at the ...