Fleet Adm. William Leahy (1875-1959) served as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s chief of staff during World War II.

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced on June 27 that the rainy season likely ended more than two weeks earlier than ...

Yuri, the cherished pet dog of the imperial family, passed away on June 23 from old age, the family’s aides announced. She ...

BANGKOK--Hundreds of protesters gathered in Thailand’s capital on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister ...

SHIRAHAMA--Thousands of fans bid a teary farewell Friday to a family of four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan’s coastal town of ...

The commander of U.S. Forces Japan said the recent decision by the Self-Defense Forces to establish a joint operations ...

Eleven individuals, including three Japanese nationals, were sentenced to prison here over chemical pollution caused by a ...

A leading sake brewer has produced the traditional Japanese beverage using only foreign-harvested rice in time for the Osaka ...

Some flower species, like the stinking corpse lily in Indonesia, exude a smell like rotting flesh to attract pollen-carrying ...

Sohei Kamiya insists that he and his rising Sanseito political party are not encouraging hatred and discrimination against ...

Japanese consumers have made a sharp shift away from high-priced rice to noodles and other cost-effective staples, the start ...

A man who sexually assaulted and murdered eight suicidal females after falsely promising to die with them was executed on ...