Peter Landers is The Wall Street Journal's Asia business, finance and economics editor, based in Singapore. He previously served as Tokyo bureau chief for a decade.

The mass, hosted by the Apostolic Nunciature to Japan, was attended by about 1,000 people, including U.S. Ambassador to Japan ...

Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has conveyed the imperial family's condolences over the death of Pope Francis to the acting head of ...

On April 22, 1997, the Chavin de Huantar Operation was carried out, the successful military operation that culminated in the ...

In the rest of the world — where Korean restaurants, music and film have transformed popular culture — the discovery of ...

Catch the world’s prettiest phenomenon on time in these cherry blossom-filled cities that are a spring lover’s fantasy come ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has planted rice seeds at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in an annual tradition to promote farming.

Tokyo, April 14 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Emperor Naruhito hosted a tea party at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday for some 60 lawmakers, including the heads of both chambers of the Diet ...

the country's postwar Constitution defined an emperor as "the symbol of the state and the unity of the people of Japan" in separating the emperor from the government. His son, former Emperor Akihito, ...

the country's postwar Constitution defined an emperor as "the symbol of the state and the unity of the people of Japan" in separating the emperor from the government. His son, former Emperor Akihito, ...