Female surgeons have fewer opportunities than their male counterparts to perform robot-assisted surgeries, a gender gap that ...

The death toll from Typhoon No. 25 reached 10 on Sept. 23, as Chiba Prefecture continued dealing with widespread flooding caused in part by the first-ever embankment breaches at Inbanuma marsh.

Naohiro Makino, a potato farmer in Obihiro, Hokkaido, gave a dire warning for why Japan should continue banning imports of fresh U.S. potatoes from the United States.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday sued President Donald Trump’s administration days after they were barred from White House grounds, calling the selective ban — based on the content of their coverage ...

The first cases of damage from Typhoon No. 25 were reported on the afternoon of Sept. 21, including a mudslide that buried a woman in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

Typhoon No. 25 is expected to bring torrential rain to the Kanto-Koshin region on the afternoon of Sept. 21, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is urging caution about possible flooding and mudslides ...

On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a ...

JAKARTA—A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as about 170,000 ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia--Russia on Tuesday condemned upcoming joint military exercises between Japan, Australia and the United States and said it had formally complained to Tokyo about the deployment of U ...

NEW YORK—The yen jumped by more than 2% against the U.S. dollar on Thursday as traders ramped up bets on ‌a Bank of Japan interest rate hike, while analysts pointed to BOJ data showing ⁠no official ...

KATHMANDU--Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley bordering Nepal and China, experts and officials from both countries met in ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal--Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as ...