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.

Minako Ishida spent two years frequenting a white mansion suspended over the sea, eager to grasp just what about the property ...

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

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

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

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 ...

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan ...

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