A 50-year-old man who was arrested after allegedly fatally stabbing a colleague at a law firm in Tokyo's bustling Ikebukuro ...

The Japanese government said Tuesday it has updated its disaster risk plan in the hope of reducing the estimated death toll ...

Baby black-tailed gulls born in the spring have grown to be about the same size as their parents on Kabushima Island in the ...

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The mayor of Hiroshima said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump "does not understand the reality ...

Japan's government on Wednesday declined to comment on U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose even higher tariffs on ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of further increasing tariffs on imports from Japan, envisioning a ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, an area that has ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept ...

Two male university students were arrested for allegedly shoplifting about 330,000 yen (approx. $2,280) worth of official ...

Coco Gauff became just the third woman in the Open era to lose in the first round at Wimbledon right after winning the ...

The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. King Charles III has accepted it's time to decommission the ...

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