In a warning against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's monetary policies, the Group of Seven finance chiefs pledge to avoid using monetary policy to control foreign-exchange rates.

Police believe a man under arrest in connection with online threats that were routed through innocent people's computers may have used PCs at a company where he had been dispatched by his employer.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it is examining whether the Boeing 787′s lithium-ion battery problems were due to formation of microscopic structures called dendrites, which can cause overheating. The battery problems caused all Dreamliners to be grounded last month. Dendrites are tiny ...

Washington has sided with Tokyo in the war of words over allegations that Chinese frigates locked their weapons-guiding radar on Japanese targets near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The U.S. said Monday it has accepted Japan’s explanation and dismissed Beijing’s claim ...

North Korea apparently has carried out its third nuclear explosion test since 2006, defying international efforts to keep it from becoming a nuclear power.

The U.S. should reject the notion of preparing for war in the Pacific, and let Japan and its neighbors cooperate to counter Beijing's geopolitical ambitions.

Allowing intervention by the Self-Defense Forces in conflicts and terrorist attacks overseas is not the way to raise the safety bar for Japanese nationals.

President Barack Obama is presiding over a changing form of warfare, including drones and cyber attacks, that need a firmer political and legal foundation.

The heirs of a Dutch Internet inventor are suing Facebook for allegedly infringing his patents with the U.S. social-networking site’s “like” and “share” buttons, court documents seen on Monday said. The family of Jos Van Der Meer, a computer scientist, programmer and inventor who ...

When Sony pulls back the curtain on the next-generation PlayStation videogame console, the world will see how much the Japanese consumer electronics titan has been paying attention. Sony could double-up on hardware to power even more realistic graphics and rich game-play than the impressive ...

The communications theorist Marshall McLuhan observed that “we look at the present through a rear-view mirror.” And that “we march backwards into the future.” Amen. Remember the horseless carriage? Not to mention the fact that we still measure the oomph of a Porsche 911 ...

Mike Piazza, the former Los Angeles Dodger and New York Met great, hit more home runs (427) than any other catcher in MLB history. Piazza’s .308 career batting average is third among catchers all-time; his 1,335 RBIs are third-best for any backstop. And Mike ...

The International Olympic Committee held a disciplinary hearing on Monday for South Korean soccer player Park Jong Woo, who stirred controversy in London last summer by sending a political message in the bronze-medal match against Japan. The IOC will decide on Park’s fate at ...