A delegation of senior Taliban officials arrived on Feb. 16 for the first visit to Japan by the Islamic group since it ...

Profit, rather than charitable motives, drives agencies dedicated to placing elderly individuals in care homes.

A vibrant yellow carpet of around 100,000 canola flowers, currently in full bloom, greets visitors at Soleil Hill here.

BEIJING--Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday spoke at a symposium was attended by business leaders including Alibaba ...

Weather officials are warning of heavy snow mainly on the Sea of Japan side from northern to western Japan through Feb. 19, ...

TAIPEI--The U.S. State Department said it has made a routine update to the Taiwan section of its website, after the removal ...

HIROSHIMA—The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has reached a new milestone, surpassing 2 million visitors in a single fiscal ...

SEOUL--South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron has been found dead at her home, a police official with knowledge of the case said on ...

Parents in Japan often try to give their offspring a leg up by ensuring they learn early on how to use the abacus.

The yearly drift ice spectacle upon the Sea of Okhotsk was first observed from shore on Feb. 15 as slabs of ice neared the coast here.

The revitalization of legislation initiated by Diet members remains a persistent challenge. In the Diet, government-submitted ...

A Japanese woman was so confident in her method of teaching the English language to children that she tested it out in Canada ...