SEOUL--South Korea special prosecutors investigating the country's martial law crisis in December filed a court request to ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of two types of new antiair missiles, state media said ...

In the summer of 1985, Live Aid—a landmark dual-venue charity concert—was staged simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

The Fukui prefectural government issued 1.4 billion yen ($9.5 million) of public bonds titled the “Kyoryu Gakubu Oen Bond" ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

Told he had only three or four years to live, Ichiro Hatanaka decided to reach out to fellow sufferers of amyotrophic lateral ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

The word “remorse” appeared for the first time in 13 years in the prime minister’s address at an annual memorial service to ...

OSAKA—Two firefighters died and four others were injured after a fire broke out on Aug. 18 along the Dotonborigawa river in ...

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...