A group of Japanese people living in Vancouver, Canada, is leading an effort to clean up debris swept out to sea by the 2011 tsunami that is showing up on shores about 7,500 kilometers away. It has...

The FIFA World Cup group draw result was met with various responses in the three other countries placed in Group C with Japan. In Cote d’Ivoire, Japan’s first opponent, the online edition of loc...

A law to protect state secrets, comparable to those in other advanced countries, has finally been enacted in Japan. The government must use the law to strengthen diplomatic and national security po...

The great conciliator is gone. Nelson Mandela, whose unbreakable spirit and shining magnanimity knit together a South Africa torn by centuries of racism and exploitation, died Thursday at 95. Mande...

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada—Wherever I went, whatever I saw was fantastic. You might call that an overstatement, but not if you ever visited here. Green meadows and the reddish soil of potato field...

SEOUL (AP)—North Korea on Saturday deported an elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of Merrill Newman’s return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean guerrillas still ...

WASHINGTON (AP)—A longtime adviser to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has resigned after the government learned he has worked since 2010 as a paid consultant for Huawei Technologies Ltd....