In April, a Lawson convenience store in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, made news around Japan after ...

Shares in the Japanese entertainment giant behind the popular Hello Kitty brand plunged on Wednesday after major shareholders ...

A police officer in Australia who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a Taser was found guilty of her ...

Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation as part of a wide-ranging anti-corruption probe that ...

Banned boxer Ryan Garcia is to fight in Japan on New Year's Eve, organizers said Wednesday, but the American's management ...

What I can't understand is Japan's obsession with "world heritage sites." How many gold mines are there in the world? The ...

Police in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of trespassing on the property of a man this week. Police said Yuta Sugawara, a company employee, has admitted ...

A chief public prosecutor in central Japan on Wednesday apologized in person to an 88-year-old man who was acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case, after spending more than four ...

A major political storm set off by a bitter feud between the Philippine president and the vice president is testing an Asian ...

Children play on a street decorated with Christmas decorations in Nagoya.

Israel approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday that would end nearly 14 ...

Unlike scores of people who scrambled for the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight in recent years, Danielle ...