Japanese inflation breaks 2% for the first time this year

Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts

Japan's highest peak is often overlooked as being an active volcano. But with the risk of eruption ever-present, disaste…

Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami dies at 74

Murakami's works, which explored sex, violence, and youth culture, were translated globally.

China orders ‘all-out’ rescue after Tibet quake kills 16

More than 300 houses collapsed in the 7.0 magnitude quake, which struck on Thursday at 10:33 p.m.