The Yamanashi prefectural government announced Sept. 14 that it plans to charge fees for rescues by its disaster-prevention helicopters starting in September 2027. The announcement came as Yamanashi ...

NAHA—Genta Koja became the first Okinawa governor elected after expressing unconditional support for plans to relocate the ...

The fate of the sharpest yen rally in 18 months rests on the Bank of Japan breaking free of its cautious rate-hiking path, ...

DUBLIN—President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, members of international terrorist group al-Qaida hijacked four passenger jets and flew into the World ...

Asian shares were trading mostly lower Tuesday, after artificial-intelligence stocks slid overnight. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged in morning trading but lost some of those earlier gains in ...

The search is continuing for at least 129 people missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in Indonesia ’s Java Sea on ...

BEIJING—Beijing is banning the possession of drones within city limits in new rules announced Sunday that further tighten its ...

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

A candidate backed by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government won Okinawa’s gubernatorial election on Sunday, ...

BANGKOK—Thailand and Cambodia’s foreign ministers exchanged opening statements in Singapore on Tuesday at the first meeting to settle a sea border dispute under a U.N. agreement on maritime law for ...

BEIJING--China will impose a no-fly zone over its capital and tighten a citywide drone ban, state media reports showed, months after a small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s ‌tallest building in a rare ...