The influenza outbreak has triggered a national alert as flu cases are surging and hospitalizations are increasing, ...

TAIPEI/TOKYO--Taiwan has lifted all restrictions on food imports from Japan that were introduced after the Fukushima nuclear ...

Japan’s global exports rose 3.7% in October from a year earlier while imports from the world edged up 0.6%, according to ...

American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, a nine-time Grammy Award winner, recently urged Musk to put his massive wealth to ...

BEIJING/TOKYO--Chinese diplomats airing hawkish views, known as "wolf warriors", have returned to the global stage, drumming ...

Minuscule airborne plastic particles are spreading to all corners of the planet, penetrating deep into human bodies and ...

MATSUYAMA—High concentrations of synthetic chemicals have been detected in Tsushima leopard cats, an endangered species found ...

OITA—Firefighters continued to battle a blaze in Oita city’s Saganoseki district on Nov. 19 after a body was found in the ...

The government is preparing a comprehensive economic stimulus package worth more than 20 trillion yen ($128 billion), ...

HANNO, Saitama Prefecture–In a quiet corner in the Hanno High School library here, a bookshelf holds about 100 titles that ...

Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi attended a Swedish-language class at the University of Osaka on Nov. 19 to ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks to ozeki ...