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.

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning, cementing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney’s command of a Justice Department the Republican ...

The Japanese government will tap over 20 billion yen from its reserve funds to support areas hit hard by a massive earthquake in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto nearly a week earlier, Prime ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...