A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

The serious confrontation between the United States and China entailing a series of retaliatory high tariffs has finally ...

TAIPEI--China is moving to strengthen its alliances with other countries as a counterweight to President Donald Trump’s trade ...

WASHINGTON--Online shoppers in the U.S. will see a price break on their purchases valued at less than $800 and shipped from ...

Hana Glover Bennett was born in Nagasaki in 1876, at the dawn of the Meiji Era (1868-1912).

Touted Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Roki Sasaki landed on the injured list Tuesday with right shoulder impingement.

BANGKOK--Funerals have been held in Myanmar for almost two dozen students and teachers alleged to have been killed in an ...

Nearly half of people who read false rumors or misinformation online believe the contents are true, according to the internal ...

It’s a cold, wet morning and frigid air is seeping through the open doors of a college gymnasium in Tokyo. But that doesn’t ...

Recently, an Asahi Shimbun reporter climbed into Science Co.'s “Mirai (future) Human Washing Machine” at the Osaka Kansai ...

German author Erich Kastner (1899-1974), whose works included children’s literature, secretly kept a diary while resisting ...

OSAKA—The boy character on packaging of the long-selling Bisco biscuit has been redesigned for the first time in 20 years to increase overseas sales. Bisco Boya (Bisco boy) is now shown with ...