Mon, September 29, 2014 Published on Sep. 29, 2014 Published on 2014-09-29T11:08:50+07:00 During World War II, the island of Java experienced major social and political change. From 1942 to 1945, the ...

All the open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they ...

JAKARTA -- Three Japanese and two Indonesian companies are set to win a $1.2 billion contract to build a port in West Java, Indonesia's Ministry of Transportation said Sunday, as the country looks to ...

Even in a prefecture hosting Toyota Motor Corp. and its myriad of subcontractors, Yoshinobu Uchida finds it difficult to recruit workers for his plastic components factory.

A new book by a World War II veteran has shed light on a little-known postscript to the conflict in the Far East—and one that was officially denied by the UK government of the day. "Parachute Doctor: ...

Mount Merapi, also called the Mount Fuji of Java. (Photo courtesy of Mount Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefectural Government) Researchers at a Mount Fuji research institute are to begin ...

The first coffee shop in Tokyo opened its doors in 1888 and, while it's no green tea, the Japanese have been refining their taste for the drink ever since. Known as the Kahiichakan, it was the ...