Japan’s labor shortage is forcing its conservative lawmakers to consider overhauling decades-old social welfare rules ...

BANGKOK--A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people familiar ...

China has cleared 51 tons of trash from a scenic southern region famed for a craggy peak featured in Hollywood blockbuster ...

Foreign investors flocked to Japanese stocks and bonds last week, driven by hopes of a U.S.-China trade deal, a strong demand ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s ruling party, besieged by a faltering economy and a border crisis, faces more uncertainty this week as ...

Lawmakers in both the ruling and opposition parties are heightening calls for a review or even abolishment of the duty-free ...

Mysterious geometric patterns dubbed “underwater crop circles” are appearing on the seafloor as the spawning season of a ...

For a Yokohama-based company falsely accused of exporting equipment that could be used to make biological weapons, the ...

Asian shares were trading mixed early Thursday after Wall Street’s rally stalled as investors appeared not to react much to ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer stretch of the Biwako Sosui—a historic manmade ...