Police in Kyoto have arrested a 31-year-old nursery school teacher on suspicion of violating the Child Prostitution and Pornography Prohibition Act for allegedly filming a 6-year-old girl getting ...

The magnitude 7.5 earthquake that occurred off northeastern Japan recently highlighted the need for Japan to provide safety tips and evacuation information to foreign nationals more effectively, ...

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with President Xi Jinping not attending, despite a diplomatic crisis ‌between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan. Beijing ...

Prep materials for a November appearance in parliament by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, whose remarks in the session precipitated the latest flareup in Sino-Japanese tensions, strongly ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party wants to include discussions on whether the export of lethal weapons to "nations under aggression" should be allowed as part of the proposed easing of ...

Cambodia said Saturday that Thailand continued dropping bombs on its territory hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said the neighbors had agreed to stop fighting. The latest clashes between the ...

The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered peace agreement by backing a new and deadly offensive in the mineral-rich eastern Congo and warned that the Trump administration ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after ‌carrying out duties in Russia, the North's KCNA news agency reported on ...

The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a ...

Mount Fuji may be the most recognizable natural symbol of Japan, but if we’re throwing man-made ones into the mix, the shinkansen has to be pretty high on the list, right? The crown jewel of Japan’s ...

Roughly 10 percent of high school students in Japan who have abused over-the-counter medication such as cough suppressants within the past year report using them several times a week or more, a ...

Nippon Steel Corp said it aims to invest around $6 trillion yen ($39 billion) over the next five years domestically and globally, including upgrading the facilities of the recently acquired United ...