SEOUL--South Korea special prosecutors investigating the country's martial law crisis in December filed a court request to ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of two types of new antiair missiles, state media said ...

New details have come to light on the intrusion of a Japanese destroyer into Chinese territorial waters last July that ...

Japan and South Korea are such close neighbors that it takes only a two-hour plane ride to travel from one capital to the ...

In the summer of 1985, Live Aid—a landmark dual-venue charity concert—was staged simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

The Fukui prefectural government issued 1.4 billion yen ($9.5 million) of public bonds titled the “Kyoryu Gakubu Oen Bond" ...

OSAKA—Two firefighters died and four others were injured after a fire broke out on Aug. 18 along the Dotonborigawa river in ...

Told he had only three or four years to live, Ichiro Hatanaka decided to reach out to fellow sufferers of amyotrophic lateral ...

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...

While the family lived apart, Japan attacked the U.S. military base and airfields at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 1941.