Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole here.

NARA--A festival that involves setting fire to a grassy mountain slope was held at Mount Wakakusayama here to herald the ...

JAKARTA--The defense ministers of France and Indonesia agreed Friday to work more closely to maintain regional stability, ...

A former correctional officer offered a rare first-hand account of the execution of a death row inmate he participated in ...

MANILA--Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered on Friday to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if ...

OSAKA—An external review released by the city government here on Jan. 30 found that improved negotiations could have slashed ...

Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated high-speed rail technologies, it has made ...

TAIPEI--A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, ...

Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers ...

The iconic Doctor Yellow, a brightly colored train that has patrolled the Shinkansen tracks for 24 years, arrived at Tokyo ...

Japan is belatedly addressing an issue described as critically urgent: how to protect undersea cables used for internet ...

Toyota Motor sold 10.8 million vehicles in 2024, it said on Thursday, remaining the world's top-selling automaker for a fifth ...