An agave “century plant” said to bloom only once every 100 years has begun to open its bushy yellow blossoms in Hibiya Park ...

KYOTO--The streets here were bathed in the glow of lantern lights and filled with the sounds of music as the floats were ...

Fifteen students at the Tokyo metropolitan Rokugo Koka High School fell sick after eating red-hot potato chips that had ...

MILWAUKEE--Cheering GOP delegates formally nominated Donald Trump for president at Monday’s Republican National Convention ...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday chose U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate as he looks to return to the ...

Surface ocean temperatures in waters around the Japanese archipelago in the first half of this year were the highest since ...

Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday as investors grappled with weak economic data from China and waited to see the outcome of ...

WELLINGTON--Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there ...

A plastic model of Gundam clad in a protector suit modeled after armor worn by the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate is ...

GENEVA--Chinese swimmers going to the Paris Olympics are undergoing increased drug testing of at least eight times this year ...

Were it not for Nepal, new banknotes that went into circulation with much fanfare on July 3 might never have got printed. The ...

BEIJING--China's ruling Communist Party started a four-day meeting Monday that is expected to lay out a strategy for ...