MITO—Ibaraki prefectural police on Nov. 12 arrested a Chinese national suspected of impersonating a celebrity in the biggest ...

HONG KONG--Asian stocks on Wednesday followed Wall Street lower as momentum cooled for the torrid “Trump trade” that swept ...

Shinji Ishimaru, the surprise runner-up in the Tokyo gubernatorial election, announced on Nov. 12 that he plans to keep the ...

Tokyo prosecutors have received papers on Stefan Kaufmann, the sacked CEO of medical equipment manufacturer Olympus Corp. who ...

SITUBONDO, Indonesia--The Indonesian and Australian militaries began joint combat drills off Indonesia’s main island of Java ...

The first meeting between Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been scheduled for Nov. 15, ...

Seven & i Holdings Co. is mulling a management buyout (MBO) to counter a takeover bid, The Asahi Shimbun learned on Nov. 13.

Newly appointed Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki was noncommittal in addressing calls to allow married couples to choose their ...

An uproar of opposition emerged within a ruling Liberal Democratic Party meeting over the mere suggestion of banning ...

The first melted fuel sample recovered from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant arrived at a research facility ...

TOKYO--Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by positive ...

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) opened on Nov. 11 in Baku, ...