Starbucks announced it will raise prices of 20 or so coffee beverages and five coffee bean products at around 600 stores, or 30 percent of its outlets in Japan, on Feb. 15.

Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole here.

JAKARTA--The defense ministers of France and Indonesia agreed Friday to work more closely to maintain regional stability, ...

Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated high-speed rail technologies, it has made ...

OSAKA—An external review released by the city government here on Jan. 30 found that improved negotiations could have slashed ...

MANILA--Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered on Friday to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if ...

A former correctional officer offered a rare first-hand account of the execution of a death row inmate he participated in ...

Deliberations that kicked off on a record budget for fiscal 2025 underscored the fragile state of the ruling coalition in the Lower House Budget Committee.

Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers ...

TAIPEI--A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, ...

Japan is belatedly addressing an issue described as critically urgent: how to protect undersea cables used for internet ...

Reversing its longstanding policy, the government plans to release stockpiled rice for emergency use if distribution problems occur, not just when there is a bad harvest.