Someone has illegally dumped large amounts of bread along the prefectural Daisen ring road near Daisenji Temple here in a ...

Hokkaido University said Aug. 27 that a graduate student died after being splashed with highly toxic hydrofluoric acid in an ...

One month has passed since a major earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan. More than 2,000 people are ...

The Japanese government on Thursday decided on support measures for areas hit by the earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture last ...

Japan plans to provide defense equipment and other supplies to the armed forces of at least 12 like-minded countries under ...

Japan's unemployment rate fell to 2.4 percent in July from 2.5 percent in the previous month, improving for the first time in ...

Tashi Nyima, an artist based in India as a stateless Tibetan refugee, will hold an exhibition of his works in Tokyo on Aug.

Japan's left-leaning opposition parties are at a crossroads 81 years after World War II, struggling to turn the tide as ...

The leader of the Philippines' Muslim-led Bangsamoro autonomous region on Mindanao Island said he wants its first parli ...

Two Chilean men were arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing luxury watches from a shop in Tokyo, an investigative source ...

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde artist known worldwide for her repetitive imagery of polka dots, pumpkin sculptures and ...

Two men died in successive water accidents at beaches in Shizuoka Prefecture on Aug. 25 after this season's beach season had ...