OSAKA—Potentially explosive methane gas was detected at the Osaka Expo venue here on April 6, one week before the event’s ...

FRANKFURT--Global stock markets extended a severe plunge Monday, fueled by fears that U.S. tariffs would lead to a global ...

A medical transport helicopter carrying a patient fell into the sea in southwestern Japan Sunday, leaving three of the six people aboard dead, the Japan Coast Guard said.

The suicide of a manager at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Oita Prefecture who worked for six straight months without taking ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on April 7 visited Iwoto island, formerly known as Iwojima, for the first time to pay ...

To strengthen the defense of the Nansei chain of islands stretching from southwest of Kyushu, the Self-Defense Forces has ...

The government will dispatch Self-Defense Forces units to Myanmar to support those affected by the recent devastating ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. “The forest is the lover of the sea.” Few ...

A widespread system failure across central Japan is ongoing after knocking out electronic toll collection (ETC) booths on ...

Tokyo and Washington went to great pains in 1996 to conceal the existence of a CIA office in Tokyo, saying that the news ...