Police in Nagareyama City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested an 18-year-old Sri Lankan national on suspicion of murder, after he allegedly stabbed a 21-year-old Sri Lankan man with a knife. Police said ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for the resumption of free and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in phone talks with Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said on Monday, amid ...

Japan's current account surplus in the first half of 2026 rose 22.5 percent from a year earlier to 17.43 trillion yen ($110 billion) as the trade balance swung into the black, government data showed ...

The Okayama District Court has sentenced a 31-year-old man to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting and committing indecent acts against 19 children at his home in Kasaoka City, Okayama ...

Typhoon No. 13 lashed Japan's southern Okinawa Prefecture on Saturday, injuring five people and cutting power ‌to 14,000 buildings. The storm was about 160 km northwest of Kume ‌Island in Okinawa as ...

Police in Misaki town, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of stomping on his 80-year-old mother, with whom he lived, causing her death. Police said Yoshiki ...

The Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons to help replenish its diminished stockpile of munitions, including those depleted in the ongoing war with Iran.

Over 1,200 disaster relief volunteers have entered quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture since municipalities started accepting them this month. Disaster volunteer centers have been set up in 11 ...

The British band Massive Attack said its members were detained by Singapore police and "isolated ‌and separately questioned" after the two performers raised a Palestinian flag at their concert in the ...

Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading ...

The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan’s finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets. Before late last week, ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday decided to leave the decision on a proposal to cut the consumption tax on food to its tax policy chief after the idea faced opposition from fiscal ...