A 17-year-old passenger in a car being driven by a 16-year-old student without a license died after suffering severe injuries ...

A drunk passenger was shut inside the last train of the day on a Nagoya subway line and remained there for about five hours ...

Former Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito secured reelection in Sunday's gubernatorial election in western Japan, held after he lost ...

The Shigarakicho district of Koka, Shiga Prefecture, is famous for its production of Shigaraki pottery. Snake ornaments are ...

Over half of Japan's sporting bodies have taken measures against nonconsensual capturing and sharing of sexualized images of ...

Students at a high school in this southwest Japan city recently visited Okinawa Prefecture to engage in fieldwork to learn ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un renewed his call for a "limitless" expansion of his military ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba missed a group photo session at the APEC summit in Peru's capital of Lima, with the ...

Major insurance companies in Japan are urgently thinking of ways to prevent hail damage. Against a backdrop of abnormal ...

The Bank of Japan will continue to raise its policy rate from the current level of around 0.25 percent if the economy and ...

U.S. President Joe Biden's third face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping took place as widely expected, ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani is arranging a visit to South Korea in late December for talks with his counterpart ...