A teenager who survived for nine days trapped in rubble from the 2011 tsunami disaster later went into hiding from public view, embarrassed by “miracle rescue” descriptions of his ordeal.

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NAGOYA--A team of researchers has developed a brain-training system for the early detection of, and recovery from, a state of ...

Fishing operations are finally back to normal, well almost, at the port of Wajima in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following ...

A massacre of dozens of shipwrecked Ryukyu islanders in Taiwan over a century ago was the trigger for a power play that ...

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SEOUL-- A fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island Friday, leaving at least two people dead ...

Tokyo officials were overjoyed after the Japanese capital was named the world’s best large city in a leading U.S. travel ...

The Board of Audit of Japan has published a critical report on the annual audit of the government’s final accounts of ...

BEIJIN--China is expected to announce much-anticipated steps to boost its flagging economy Friday at the end of this week's ...

With the distant sea in the background, majestic buildings jut up from the base of a gently sloping hillside that was part of ...