South Korea on Tuesday lodged a strong protest after Japan reiterated its claim to sovereignty over a pair of South Korean-controlled islets in its annual defense report, summoning a Japanese defense attache and minister. The move to summon Koichi Mizushima, minister at the Japanese Embassy ...

A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay compensation over forced labor by two women during World War II. In the latest ruling concerning such practices during the Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945, the Gwangju ...

Typhoon Noru prompted evacuation notices in at least half a dozen prefectures over fears of landslides and rising rivers as it brought heavy rains and flooding to the Hokuriku and Kansai regions on Tuesday. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least two people were reported dead ...

White paper cites deep concern over reclusive state’s recent advances in ICBM technology, while also hitting China for its maritime expansion.

Olaparib, already approved in the United States and the European Union, acts against cancers in people with hereditary mutations in genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer.

As Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. begin to scour the U.S. in search of a location for the first new auto assembly plant announced since President Donald Trump took power, one state looks like a front-runner: Mississippi. The Magnolia State is already home ...

A year since becoming Tokyo governor, Yuriko Koike is riding high. In that time, she has won over voters by successfully portraying herself as an iconoclast battling the "black box" opacity that she says has long pervaded the decision-making process in Tokyo. Her latest accomplishment is ...

Launch of Nippon First no Kai could help Tokyo governor transition to national politics, build campaign to become first female prime minister.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. have won a ¥40 billion order from a Bangladesh state-owned company to supply 144 train cars and maintenance depot equipment for the country's first rapid transit railway system. The state-run Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Co. is now building ...

SoftBank Group Corp.'s group net profit in the April-June period fell 97.8 percent from a year earlier to ¥5.52 billion, following a one-time gain last year from the sale of shares in an affiliate. The telecommunications and internet services giant said its group operating profit ...

Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry. James Damore, the engineer who wrote ...

The number of patients suffering from tick-borne diseases, some of which are life-threatening, is increasing at a rapid pace this year, prompting alarm among medical experts. In particular, experts have flagged two infections for which no vaccines are available, noting that the bites through which ...

China will pay the biggest price from the new United Nations sanctions against North Korea because of its close economic relationship with the country, but will always enforce the resolutions, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions ...

Sprint Corp.'s resumed talks about a potential merger with T-Mobile US Inc., being held at the same time as discussions with cable companies, shows the lengths billionaire Masayoshi Son is taking to build scale for a wireless carrier facing increasing competition in the U.S. The ...

A scheduled meeting between the foreign ministers of China and Vietnam on the sidelines of a regional gathering was canceled, Chinese Embassy officials said, amid growing tension between the two countries over the South China Sea. Vietnam had held out for language that noted concern ...

The current account surplus expanded in the January-June period to its highest level since 2007 as earnings from foreign investments moved further into the black offset a rise in energy prices that made imports more expensive, government data showed Tuesday. Marking the largest figure since ...

Foreign Minister Taro Kono brushed aside a provocative remark by his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during their first talks since he assumed his post last week, saying he wants Beijing to "learn how to behave as a big power." At the bilateral meeting in Manila ...

Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara has promised to review the Democratic Party's cooperation with other opposition forces, including the Japanese Communist Party. At a Monday news conference, Maehara said he will carry out the review if he is elected president of the DP, the main ...

New Foreign Minister Taro Kono made his debut on the world stage — with his English fluency on display — during a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related meetings in Manila lasting through Monday. Kono, a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, spoke English ...

Islamic State may have fired seven Grad rockets into Lebanon on Monday from its enclave on the border with Syria, without causing any injuries, a Lebanese security source said. It would mark the first use of those weapons by Islamic State fighters there for several ...

As U.S. policymakers ponder how to deal with North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, it is important for them to remember that they are not in uncharted territory.

Along with closer economic cooperation in recent years, Japan and Vietnam have been strengthening their strategic ties.

Popularly known as Genshin (942-1017), the high-ranking Buddhist prelate Eshin Sozu was said to have been born following his devout mother's prayers to the Kannon of Takaoji Temple in Taima, Nara Prefecture. Genshin began the road to monkhood in youth, studying at Kyoto's Enryakuji Temple ...

Tokyo's first netlabel parties were filled with nods to internet culture. You'd see customers ordering their drinks via Twitter, robotic hands clapping in time to DJ sets, and people live-streaming themselves from the dancefloor. It's not certain whether any of that paraphernalia will appear at ...

Aug. 5-Sept. 24 Tadanori Shibamiya (1938-2007) spent the last 25 years of his life living in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, though he graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University and taught at the Showa Gakuin Senior High School before he began focusing on his own art from 1970. The ...

Miles Mikolas tossed seven shutout innings and Shingo Ishikawa was 2-for-3 with three RBIs as the Yomiuri Giants defeated the Hanshin Tigers 6-1 on Tuesday night. Mikolas (10-5) held the Tigers to four hits and struck out four during his 119-pitch outing at Tokyo Dome, ...

Japanese skaters dominated at the Asian Open Trophy last week in Hong Kong in the first event of the long Olympic season. How comprehensive were the victories for the Hinomaru? Japan swept the titles in the senior women (Kaori Sakamoto), senior men (Keiji Tanaka), junior women ...

Patience is a virtue, they say. But it is one rarely exhibited in MLB, especially when it comes to rookies. Be good or be gone is usually the modus operandi practiced by most big league ball clubs in dealing with their younger players. Go great guns ...