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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Hibakusha and local officials are outraged that U.S. President Donald Trump likened the recent U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear ...