SEOUL--China is trying to drag South Korea into its camp to challenge Japan on differences over historical perceptions, including the wartime "comfort women" issue. Although the two countries agreed here July 3 to work jointly to expose the reality that ...

Google Inc. is enabling users worldwide to feel like they are traveling back in time under a service initially set up to help victims of the March 2011 disaster in northeastern Japan. The company's new feature, introduced on April 24, shows 360-degree street ...

The Japanese group that conducts whaling says it hopes to resume scientific whaling in the Antarctic after this year's hunt was canceled following an order by an international court. Last month's judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered a ...

KUALA LUMPUR/SYDNEY--Australia will lead a search of the remote southern Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysian jet liner, its prime minister said on March 17, amid mounting evidence the plane's disappearance was a meticulously planned act of ...

For the first time since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant three years ago, the government is lifting an evacuation order in a restricted area, allowing residents to return to their homes. Residents of an eastern strip of the Miyakoji ...

BEIJING--China's Foreign Ministry pushed back against U.S. pressure on North Korea and the disputed South China Sea on Feb. 14, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Beijing for high-level meetings. Speaking in Seoul before leaving for Beijing, ...