An 88-year-old man driving a light passenger car was killed after his vehicle crashed into the wall of a house in Oita City on Monday, Police said the accident occurred at around 2 p.m. TV Asahi ...

Typhoon Jangmi was moving north toward Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday after battering Okinawa the previous day, the weather agency said. Nine people had sustained minor injuries ...

Russian attacks across Ukraine killed four people in Dnipro and damaged two apartment buildings in the capital Kyiv early on Tuesday, authorities said, ‌after days of warnings that Moscow was planning ...

A 60-year-old man living in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, called 110 on Monday and said he had killed his 90-year-old mother’s visiting caregiver and then said he was going to kill himself. Police ...

The Tokyo District Court has found an anesthesiologist guilty over the death of a 2-year-old boy at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital in 2014. Toru Kotani and another anesthesiologist, Satoshi ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday she called for the free and safe passage of ships through the all-but-closed Strait of Hormuz in phone talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ...

Typhoon Jangmi is forecast to bring heavy rain to western and eastern Japan along the Pacific coast this week, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Sunday, with airlines already cancelling flights.

A bus passenger suffered a knife wound to his face after a dispute with another passenger in Tokyo on Monday. The incident occurred at around 10:15 a.m. as the two men were getting off the bus at a ...

Every day, millions of people in Japan open a bento or dig into a restaurant’s meal while holding a pair of chopsticks that are destined for the garbage once finished, possibly even sooner if one is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump called Saturday for the cancellation of upcoming concerts celebrating America's 250th anniversary after several musical acts backed out, saying they should be replaced by a ...

Are we talking about traditional manual folding fans with elegant designs, or the plastic, battery-operated ones? If the latter, a total waste of time. If the former, a waste of time but at least ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Asian allies to ramp up military spending to counter China's growing power and prevent its dominance in ‌the region, warning of "rightful alarm" ...