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

A chief public prosecutor in central Japan on Wednesday apologized in person to an 88-year-old man who was acquitted in a ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In Japanese society, prostitution is often framed as a necessary evil – a way to maintain social harmony by providing men ...

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