ISLAMABAD--Flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan killed at least 50 people on Friday, ...

The government’s newly established headquarters for promoting volcanic observation and research should be viewed as a crucial ...

SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday inspected the country's artillery weapon system and attended the test-firing ...

Japan joined 142 nations at the U.N. General Assembly on May 10 in approving a resolution calling on the Security Council to ...

BEIJING--Erratic rainfall in China’s southwest is frustrating a multibillion-dollar push to green an aluminum industry that ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species ...

Sega Sammy is selling its resort complex Seagaia to Fortress Investment Group of the U.S., the Japanese entertainment company ...

A letter of astonishing, colossal size—the span of a school classroom—written by a wily late-19th century businessman, will ...

The ruling coalition agreed on a “summary” of revisions to the Political Fund Control Law in response to a political funding ...

Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa reacted angrily to U.S. congressional testimony that appeared to validate the atomic bombings ...

SEOUL--South Korea’s president on Thursday dismissed calls for independent investigations into allegations involving his wife ...

The Upper House approved legislation designed to restrict access to economic security information on May 10 although details ...