Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...

With Japan endorsing climate targets criticized as unambitious, activists are looking to education and more tailored ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy ...

Common-law marriage refers to a relationship in which couples have not filed for marriage at government offices but are ...

This was supposed to be a year to celebrate the improvement of relations between South Korea and Japan. However, amid the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized for distributing gift certificates to 15 first-year lawmakers in ...

The fighting may have stopped. The danger to civilians returning to their homes in war-torn countries around the world may ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a ...

The number of elderly people in Japan surged by 20,000 from September 2023 to 36.25 million, accounting for a record high 29.3 percent of the population, government figures showed. The Ministry of ...

The remains of some 1,400 people sit in storage for possible identification with DNA testing. So far just six have been identified and returned to their families.