A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother in absentia for murder, torture and crimes ...

A typhoon made landfall in east Japan's Kanto region, which includes Tokyo, on Tuesday night, the weather agency said, warning of flo ...

Rents are rising across Japan, particularly in Tokyo, driven by higher land prices, materials costs and labor expenses. In some cases, proper ...

The Nikkei stock index was directionless Wednesday morning as investors refrained from buying actively ahead of the release of the U.

KORIYAMA, Fukushima -- A festival in this northeastern Japan city popular for its sweeping views of sunflowers and wind turbines has been canceled, after deer ate all the plants, not even leaving ...

Shohei Ohtani went 2-for-4 with an RBI and scored the decisive run as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Kansas City Royals ...

Former Japan Business Federation head Hiroshi Okuda, who also served as president and chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., has died, accor ...

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile eastward Wednesday morning that is believed to have fallen outside Japan's exclusive ...

More than 2,000 people have now died in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and challenges keep coming in containing a rare type of ...

President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White Hous ...

The Japanese government is moving to improve working conditions for national civil servants amid criticism of the grueling work culture in th ...

A few years ago, a pop culture store owner in Wisconsin mentioned to Jason Ganos, a well-known Nintendo game collector, that he had a box of S ...