TOKYO/TAIPEI--A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time on Wednesday, Japan’s defense ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for a second straight month in August, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, despite signs of ...

Here is a story from Paris about eggplant, a summer vegetable. On Sundays, I used to eat a falafel sandwich with fried ...

A five-day experiment had just one rule: Do not use any disposable plastic waste. The campaign, undertaken by an Asahi ...

At the Samezu Driver's License Center in Tokyo on a recent day, dozens of elderly individuals were lined up for the cognitive ...

To spread awareness in society, the Japanese Association of Sociology for Human Liberation announced on Sept. 15 that over a ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election will likely be decided in a runoff, an Asahi Shimbun survey shows ...

BEIRUT--Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese ...

BANGKOK--Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have claimed at ...

MIAMI--Jesús Sánchez doubled twice and drove in three runs, and the Miami Marlins beat Shohei Ohtani and the NL West-leading ...

World athletics chief Sebastian Coe, multi-millionaire and Olympic newcomer Johan Eliasch and Zimbabwe's Sports Minister ...

Politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed mixed reactions to an Asahi Shimbun article about a 2013 meeting ...