A Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare research team has announced the five-year survival rates for people diagnosed with ...

A car rammed into pedestrians in Tokyo's Adachi Ward on Monday, with two people showing no vital signs and several others ...

At Narita International Airport, there is a shop that has become a sanctuary for travelers with broken suitcases. The shop's ...

Thailand's police said Monday they obtained an arrest warrant for a woman suspected of forcing her 12-year-old Thai daughter ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that he has accepted an invitation from Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit Beijing in ...

The reality of human trafficking -- often called modern-day slavery -- in Japan has been revealed. There is an urgent need to ...

Japan's public broadcaster NHK has begun verifying reception contracts for users of its new online streaming service ...

The Tokushima Prefectural Government announced on Nov. 19 that it has returned a painting that turned out to be a forgery and ...

On a humid June morning in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, hundreds of would-be teachers filed into exam halls to ...

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd. has opened its first shop located on a station platform here, allowing takeouts only.

Top U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Sunday they'd made progress toward ending the Russia-Ukraine war but provided scant ...

Ukrainian prodigy Aonishiki won an elite championship title on Sunday, the first sumo wrestler from his country to do so, ...