The head of a major Japanese opposition party on Tuesday called on other opposition forces to unite on key policies to pave ...

Despite initial skepticism, the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai attracted more than 25 million people in total, according to ...

TOKYO -- Make your home a "place hard to enter and easy to see," a crime prevention expert advises as a surge in burglaries ...

Tokyo stocks ended sharply lower Tuesday, with the Nikkei index sinking over 2 percent, as selling was spurred amid political ...

Major companies, startups and researchers were among 810 exhibitors on site for the opening of Japan's major annual ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he will travel to the United States this week for talks on the potential ...

Los Angeles Dodgers starter Blake Snell was near-perfect through eight innings before Roki Sasaki ran into trouble for ...

A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old man to death for murdering two neighbors and two police officers in ...

A bronze weight from the Nara period (710-794) has been unearthed at the Manakoshi archaeological site here, the local ...

Police in central Japan have arrested a 21-year-old correctional officer on suspicion of kidnapping an underage girl he met ...

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Madagascar's president said Sunday that an attempted coup was underway in the Indian Ocean country, just a day after ...