Police in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, have arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of breaking into a home and assaulting two residents and their neighbor. Police said Tatsuhiro Gonnai, a laborer, ...

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 ...

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.

All four Humboldt penguins that were being kept at a zoo in northeastern Japan and died one after the other last month were found to have died from avian malaria, results from an investigation showed ...

Japan's Foreign Ministry has lodged a protest with South Korea over suspected maritime research near islets in the Sea of Japan that are controlled by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo. Japan protested after ...

A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police said. The shooting happened at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School ...

Hiroshima on Thursday urged world leaders to abolish nuclear weapons amid rising global tensions, as the city marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, lamenting their use as "tools of ...

Two men were injured Saturday in an explosion at an apartment building in Chiba Prefecture with one suffering burns over his entire body, according to the local fire department. The blast, which ...

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 ...

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, ...

Major Japanese companies agreed to increase monthly wages by more than 5 percent for the third consecutive year in 2026, the country's largest business lobby said Tuesday, reflecting solid corporate ...

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 — ...