In April 2016, the vernacular Asahi Shimbun ran a story with a headline that may translate as: “Arms export push hits a bump: ...

Toyota Motor Corp. and Nippon Steel Corp. have hammered out a 20 to 30 percent price hike for the steel supplied to the major ...

A long rupture on the ground extending through infrastructure damage in Kumamoto Prefecture seems to confirm what seismologists had long feared: a major earthquake stemming from the active Hinagu ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered 4-meter (13-foot) tsunami waves and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday.

The Fair Trade Commission on June 16 began on-site inspections of six major ice cream producers over allegations they formed a pricing cartel that reduced competition and hurt consumers, sources said.

HAMAMATSU—The production of the famed Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer ended just two years after its launch in 1980 primarily ...

The studio of Kyoichiro Ozawa, 66, sits in a mountain area surrounded by lush greenery and the chirping of wild birds.

KOBE—Roxana Oshiro recalls the nerve-racking time when she crawled out of her broken wooden apartment during the 1995 Great ...

The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical legacy.

The U.S. Navy minesweeper Warrior entered Hakodate Port in Hokkaido on Sept. 9 for maintenance work by a private Japanese ...

BANGKOK—After more than five years of fighting, a rare window for talks over Myanmar’s devastating civil war is appearing, driven by a shift on the ‌battlefield where the military has regained ground ...

Support for the Takaichi Cabinet has plummeted among voters in their 30s, eroding the solid political base that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi formerly enjoyed, according to a recent Asahi Shimbun poll ...