A UN survey shows that more than half of people without their ideal number of children cite economic instability as the main ...

How will Pope Leo XIV, the first US pontiff, lead amid global turmoil? And what might his relationship with Asia look like?

Matsunoo Taisha is the guardian Shinto shrine to Kyoto's west. In April and May, the deities are carried through the ...

Iran plans to make a counterproposal to a plan presented by the United States in talks over Tehran's nuclear development.

Japan's Defense Minister Nakatani Gen says the government has asked China for consideration following the dispatch of both of ...

The seasonal rain front and developed rainclouds brought intermittent downpours to southwestern Japan on Tuesday morning.

A boat carrying Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in southern Israel. Thunberg and a human rights group had been ...

A group representing Japanese businesses in China says it has made proposals to Beijing to ease restrictions on their exports ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda have agreed to work together to try to bring ...

Japan's weather officials say the rainy season appears to have begun in the Kanto-Koshin and Hokuriku regions.

Rice sold from national stockpiles is now on store shelves throughout Japan, indicating prices will start to ease as ...

Southeast Asian countries are scrambling to deal with looming US tariffs. Cattle farmers in Thailand fear for their ...