Asia

  Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors Thursday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan,…

  South Korea said its envoys met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Wednesday to prepare…

  A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded…

  Several Myanmar news outlets and dozens of civil society groups denounced the jailing of two Reuters reporters for seven…

  The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall Tuesday, with more than a million people urged…

  Police in central China said Sunday they arrested nearly 50 people after a violent protest sparked by dissatisfaction with…

  A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit…

  Emperor Akihito, in his last appearance as reigning monarch at an annual ceremony marking Japan’s World War Two surrender,…

  Hiroshima marked the anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city with a somber ceremony Monday…

  North and South Korea discussed reducing tension but didn’t announce any detailed agreements after military talks on Tuesday, while…