John M. Glionna

Crouched in his lush green rice fields on this agricultural plain northeast of Tokyo, Masaru Umezawa works the land as his father and grandfather did before him. The only sound...

Japanese voters on Sunday handed a humiliating defeat to the Liberal Democratic Party after its half-century of nearly unbroken rule, opting for an untested opposition party that pledged to revive...

North Korea's surprise "special pardon" of two American television journalists Tuesday may have reopened the channels of communication between the Obama administration and the secretive regime that for years has...

Come hell or high water -- she's actually expecting both -- Nobue Kunizaki will be ready when the dreaded Tokai earthquake finally hits central Japan, whether in the next month...

Corazon Aquino, the unassuming housewife who toppled a dictator and restored democracy to the Philippines as its 11th president, has died of heart failure. She was 76. She died early...

NORTH KOREA Blockade of ships will mean 'war' South Korea joins U.S.-led fight against trade in nuclear materials, angers Kim Jong Il North Korea lashed out at the United States...

Never mind that much of the world is calling North Korea's weekend space launch a dud -- that the regime's communications satellite probably sits somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. North...

This is a nation addicted to speed. And to ride Japan's super Shinkansen, or bullet train, is to zip into the future at speeds reaching 186 mph. For the most...

She's accused of being the "Mata Hari" of North Korea, a temptress-spy who for years seduced secrets from South Korean military officers. The method was potentially lethal: Won Jeong Hwa...

In Beverly Hills, the wedding couple wore matching ivory suits as a rabbi officiated on a courthouse plaza. In San Francisco, the brides exchanged vows as Mayor Gavin Newsom presided....