The Emperor and Empress hosted a tea ceremony at the Imperial Palace on Friday for leaders from various countries attending ...

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers voiced criticism about their party’s draft document summarizing the latest ...

A 35-year-old suspect arrested over the alleged murder of a Kobe woman said he “stabbed her in the stomach once or twice with ...

The Japan News [posttime] JST, [postdate] Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service after crew ...

Police in Sri Lanka arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday over allegations that the senior opposition ...

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court on Friday, in a ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming ...

South Korean entertainment companies riding the Korean Wave, or Hallyu, are scrambling to widen their global reach as Asia’s ...

Akie Iwai took a three-stroke lead into the weekend in the CPKC Women’s Open in her bid to win for the second straight week.

The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it’s ...

The planned extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line, which would connect Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, and Shin-Osaka Station ...