KYOTO--A transgender woman in her 50s has filed a petition with the Kyoto Family Court to change her gender from male to ...

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev told Japan on Tuesday it would have to drop territorial claims to a group of ...

STOCKHOLM--The United States and China have agreed to work on extending a deadline for new tariffs on each other after two ...

OSAKA--The central government and Kumamoto Prefecture both appealed an Osaka District Court ruling that expanded the ...

Around a third of insurance claims submitted by discredited used car dealer Bigmotor Co. were found to be fraudulent, but ...

The Supreme Court has finalized a landmark ruling that bars companies from using arbitrary job titles, such as “contract ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 6 was expected to bring heavy rain and violent winds to Okinawa Prefecture on June 1 before veering ...

SEOUL--An explosion and fire occurred at a defense company in South Korea on Monday, killing five people and injuring two ...

A suspicious cargo ship exhibited increasingly brazen behavior for two days in waters off the southern coast of Taiwan.

Malaysia on Monday began enforcing rules barring millions of children younger than 16 from owning social media accounts, ...

BANGKOK--A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed ...

SINGAPORE--U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured Pacific allies on Saturday that Washington remained committed to the ...