Japanese Embassy officials in Russia gained consular access to a detained reporter from The Hokkaido Shimbun Press and ...

NAHA--An underage girl testifying about her alleged abduction and rape by a U.S. airman in Okinawa Prefecture gave a haunting ...

CAIRO—High-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey were in Tehran on Monday for meetings with Iranian ...

Generational manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, famed for the beloved boxing manga “Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow” ...

As “special fraud” operations rise sharply across Japan, scammers have started buying bank accounts from foreigners and using these to transfer and receive swindled funds.

Israelis were voting Tuesday in a tense national election widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...

ZHENGZHOU, China―Around 70% of the 2 million carats of lab-grown diamonds produced annually at Feng Canjun’s factory ...

Japan’s first prosecution for refusing a court order to provide smartphone data is raising questions about whether compelling ...

The Ground Self-Defense Force on Oct. 25 unveiled its new Type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile that has a range of about ...

Trailblazer Tomoka Nishiyama has decided to take the plunge and challenge the top  professional shogi players in the ...

As Japan prepares to devise a new Defense Buildup Program, cost overruns and delayed deliveries raise doubts over whether it ...

HONG KONG―Tens of thousands of revelers in costumes ranging from ‌evil bartenders to Donald Trump impersonators, zombies and ...