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 ...

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

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

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

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon took effect on Wednesday after more than a year of fighting that has killed thousands of people. The truce, which began at 4 a.m., should bring to a ...

Manchester City's struggles continued as Pep Guardiola's side remarkably blew a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 with Feyenoord in ...

Some 65 percent of Japan's municipalities tapped to strengthen disaster preparedness said they were confused about how to respond to a Nankai Trough megaquake advisory issued for the first time this ...

In an angry outburst in a New York courtroom, Rudy Giuliani accused a judge Tuesday of making wrong assumptions about him as ...

Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six ...