Local residents and railway enthusiasts were excited to see the first bullet train travel through the prefecture in a test ...

TAIPEI--On a visit to Taiwan, a delegation of six Australian lawmakers called Tuesday for warmer relations with the ...

Blind from cataracts and hobbling on increasingly feeble legs, a Boston terrier here continued her routine of collecting and ...

Guests staying at a luxury resort hotel surrounded by pristine nature and perched on Mount Yatsugatake here may be in for a ...

RAUSU, Hokkaido–A rare sighting of a starving brown bear scrounging desperately for food underscored the severe crisis facing ...

HANOI--Vietnam plans to restart its biggest rare-earths mine next year with a Western-backed project that could rival the ...

OSAKA--It will be celebration time in the Kansai region on Nov. 23 with victory parades scheduled for the Hanshin Tigers and ...

TAIPEI--Search teams found the bodies of the last three missing people on Sunday at the site of a golf ball factory fire in ...

A growing movement opposing a highly controversial redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park submitted a fresh petition Monday, ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled on Monday the pillars of a new economic stimulus package to be compiled next month to ...

YOKOHAMA--A cyclist believed to be a foreign national died after colliding with a car on the metropolitan expressway here in ...

Safety concerns have arisen since Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) withdrew personnel from most of the station platforms for ...