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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

YANGON--Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar’s major cities on Thursday to mark ...

SEOUL--North Korea’s planned dispatch of thousands of military construction workers and deminers to Russia’s Kursk region ...

Japan conducted its first domestic drill of a long-range missile on June 24, a move that underscores Tokyo’s growing focus on ...