Airlines have announced plans to move up the deadline for checking in baggage at Tokyo’s Haneda airport to 30 minutes before the scheduled departure time. Starting next month, six domestic carriers — ...

Police in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 50-year-old man and his 45-year-old wife on suspicion of assaulting each other. According to police, the incident occurred at their home at ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that the United States had intervened jointly with Japan to support the yen, calling the move a "signal of friendship" that would financially benefit the U.S ...

Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police ...

A major earthquake rocked Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people. Speaking to reporters at ‌her ...

The recent powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture has left residents reeling from the impact, with local people and foreign nationals in shelters helping each other to overcome their ...

The public-private entity we know as "Cool Japan" was conceived as a strategy to spearhead Japan's growth. The organization's flawed strategy and implementation has come to light. Established in 2013 ...

A National Guard officer carried out a secret second marriage to a woman he met while posted in Mongolia, using a government travel card and forged documents to facilitate the double life, U.S.

The yen briefly surged past 158 versus the U.S. dollar late Thursday in Tokyo, prompting speculation that the Japanese government may have intervened in the market to prop up the country's currency.

Keiko Fujimori will be sworn in as Peru's president on Tuesday, becoming the latest in a string of conservative leaders elected across ‌Latin America by voters frustrated by crime, weak economic ...

The Japanese government said Friday a preliminary investigation found that steel products from China and South Korea have been imported into Japan at below-market prices and that it is considering ...

Anyone who has spent time on a college campus lately has probably heard laments from faculty about their students’ reading habits, or rather nonreading habits. Such complaints are more than an ...