A 22-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a junior high school girl he met on a social media site at a hotel in Tokyo in March. According to police, the suspect, Ren ...

Japan's defense minister said Friday that North Korea's accelerating weapons development poses an increasingly urgent threat to national security, following Pyongyang's testing spree earlier this week ...

Japan is set to outlaw research and treatments involving the genetic modification of human fertilized eggs using genome editing technology and their subsequent implantation into human or animal ...

President Donald Trump's search for an off-ramp from the war with Iran is getting bumpy inside his Republican Party. In the ...

President Donald Trump is using Christian rhetoric to rally core supporters behind the increasingly unpopular war with Iran, ...

If you’ve ever planned to motor west and take the highway that’s the best, this might be time: Route 66 turns 100 this year.

Britain deployed military vessels to prevent any attacks on cables and pipelines by Russian submarines that spent more than a ...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking Massachusetts' state voter rolls, ...

A U.S. judge in Washington ruled on Thursday that the Pentagon is hampering journalists in defiance ‌of a court order that ...

New films by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Spain’s Pedro Almodovar will ...

Japan’s trains are very punctual, but that doesn’t mean they have a perfect on-time record. Even the prestigious shinkansen is delayed sometimes, as happened on Tuesday afternoon when service was ...

Some 19.2 percent of teenagers aged 17 to 19 in Japan consider the "increase of immigrants" as a key national issue, almost triple that of two years ago, according to a recent online survey by the ...