China’s national security authorities in Hong Kong and the city’s police launched their first publicly known joint operation, ...

Japan’s Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, was welcomed on Wednesday by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...

Japan will hold a tender for tariff-free imported staple rice this month, earlier than the usual auction in September, to ...

Official campaigning for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election with all 127 seats at stake started on June 13, with the ...

The new prime minister of Mongolia has pledged to address the economic demands of protesters after their daily rallies led to ...

TORONTO--U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive Sunday for a Group of Seven summit in a country he has suggested should be ...

People caught reselling rice for a profit, including the government’s emergency supplies, will face a fine or even ...

A veterinarian has died after showing symptoms consistent with a potentially deadly infectious disease transmitted by ticks ...

Traffic accidents involving foreign drivers in Japan surged by 30 percent over the past five years and reached 7,286 in 2024, ...

FUKUOKA—The education board here is working to boost the quality of school lunches after drawing harsh judgments ...

More families are wading into terraced paddy fields across Japan for the back-breaking work of growing rice under “part-time ...

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