The Tokyo District Court has sentenced a 27-year-old former nursery school teacher to 14 years in prison for sexually ...

An American arrested for defacing a sacred Tokyo shrine became the latest example of Japan's struggle to cope with ...

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September period as consumer spending held up, government ...

Asian stocks were mostly higher on Friday after U.S. stocks slipped as the market’s big rally following Trump's election ...

How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but ...

Like many places in Japan, the city of Matsue is proud of its local history, and also like many places in Japan, that local ...

For the late James Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, receiving the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award was a true high ...

Fast bowler Saqib Mahmood again knocked the top off the West Indies innings to set up England's three-wicket win in the third ...

The re-election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency will have no bearing on preparations for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics ...

NATO and the European Union are ramping up efforts to persuade China to help get North Korea to stop sending troops and other ...

Israel carried out at least two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs on Thursday ...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in six months last week as layoffs remain ...