Japan will hold a tender for tariff-free imported staple rice this month, earlier than the usual auction in September, to ...

Mysterious geometric patterns dubbed “underwater crop circles” are appearing on the seafloor as the spawning season of a ...

Asian shares were trading mixed early Thursday after Wall Street’s rally stalled as investors appeared not to react much to ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is ...

JERA, Japan's biggest power generator, has agreed to new supply deals for U.S. liquefied natural gas from four projects to ...

TOKYO/BEIJING--Chinese fighter jets flew unusually close to Japanese patrol planes over the Pacific last weekend, Tokyo said, ...

PARIS--A sushi chef for only a few years, Chizuko Kimura became so adept at the craft that her restaurant here won a Michelin ...

More families are wading into terraced paddy fields across Japan for the back-breaking work of growing rice under “part-time ...

Hato Bus Co. may be synonymous with nighttime tours of Tokyo’s landmarks, but it has now branched with an “eco tour” in the capital.

Help is at hand for customers who have hearing problems or difficulty speaking Japanese at Yamato Transport Co.’s parcel ...

Two Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted conducting simultaneous operations in the Pacific for the first time, Japanese ...

KUMAMOTO--Kimiko Nishimoto, who found success late in life as a photographer, died at a hospital here from cholangiocarcinoma ...