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YOKOHAMA—The U.S. military is gone, but bitter memories remain for a Japanese family forced to live in a neighborhood encircled by high fences. Moreover, Minoru Saji, 78, believes the central and ...

BEIJING--Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and ...

A record 36.78 million foreign nationals entered Japan in 2024, an increase of 42.4 percent over the previous year, according to preliminary figures. The Immigration Services Agency said Jan. 24 that ...

Chikara Sakaguchi, a former health minister and vice leader of the Komeito party, whose moral stand was pivotal in securing a landmark government apology for its treatment of leprosy patients in 2001, ...

Typhoon No. 15 made landfall in southern Ibaraki Prefecture at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 11, making history as the first to do so in the prefecture since record-keeping began in 1951.

The business community has heightened calls for Japan to allow married couples to choose separate surnames, a reflection of ...

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket lit up the early morning sky in its successful ninth flight, deploying an operational satellite into orbit for the first time since the failed eighth mission late last year.

Aeon Co. acknowledged on Aug. 11 that it allowed employees to re-enter Aeon Mall Kumamoto in Kashima, Kumamoto Prefecture, after evacuating, which violated its own safety manual, before a fatal ...

BANGKOK—Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday after U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records, while oil prices advanced as doubts persisted over when the war with Iran will allow crude ...

TAIPEI—The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged — about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her ...

Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, killed in an Israeli strike in 2023 and recently recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in ...