Japan's only female minister denies allegations that she was paid to help a business owner get a tax break.

Syria's eastern Ghouta district remains devastated six months after the Assad regime took over the rebel stronghold in A...

A special one-day Anpanman train run marks 30 years of the Seto-Ohashi Line across the Inland Sea.

Cash-loving Japan has been slow to accept alternative payments, but new government incentives and an impending sales tax...

Japan's prime minister will ask China for more pandas when he visits the country next week.

2019 is the year of the boar, and craftsmen in central Japan are hard at work producing bamboo boar dolls.

It may take 2 years for KYB to replace all of the sub-standard anti-quake dampers installed in buildings across Japan.

A team of researchers in Japan reveals the atomic-level structure of the deadly Ebola virus.

A quake dampening equipment maker is found to have fabricated data on devices installed in buildings across Japan, inclu...

East Japan Railway tests a cashless, touch-to-go kiosk in Tokyo.