According to police, the driver, Khyir N. Williams, 21, was in possession of a loaded Glock 43x 9mm handgun, that was also reportedly equipped with a high-capacity magazine containing seventeen ...

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who killed and dismembered nine. Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and murdered.

Kantaro writes about everything from Japan's economic indicators to North Korea's missiles to global regulation on AI companies. His previous stories have been published in the Associated Press ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in nearly ...

US Marine sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexual assault in Japan The sexual assault case is the latest to strain relations between residents of Japan's Okinawa Islands and U.S. servicemembers.

Japan’s House of Councillors has approved the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) between the Philippines and Japan, which completes the deal allowing increased military engagements between the ...

Mass at a cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, after the U.S. dropped a nuclear weapon on the city in August of 1945. The Japanese bishops asked for international nuclear disarmament in a June 20, 2025 ...

California Assembly Bill 1127, authored by Jesse Gabriel, aims to prohibit the sale of firearms that can be easily converted to automatic weapons, including the popular Glock pistol, in an effort ...

Japan faces overtourism challenges with 36 million visitors in 2024, raising concerns about two-tier pricing and the environmental impact on sacred sites like Mount Fuji.

Japan might have softened its stance in tariff negotiations with the United States, backing off from its insistence that all new tariffs be removed, according to a Friday report by the Asahi Shimbun.

Japan's former Princess Mako, who left the royal family in 2021, welcomed her first child with husband Kei Komuro, Japan's Imperial Household Agency confirmed on Friday, May 30.

Japan's Diet on Friday ratified a key defense pact allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills with Filipino troops in the Philippines, Manila's top envoy to Tokyo said. "We welcome ...