KOBE—All blocs in the Hyogo prefectural assembly will call for Governor Motohiko Saito to resign mainly over his handling of ...

With distrust being most prominent among younger people, 55 percent of voters said they do not trust politics, outnumbering ...

Imperial couple meet Peace, Japan's oldest bottle-fed polar bear ...

With his trade war with Canada intensifying, U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of renaming Lake Ontario to become ...

There should be no repeat of an accident in which those working for safer railway operation lost their lives after being ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Aug. 25 that U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko ...

KYOTO—The principal of a high school here was dismissed over the death of a student on a school trip to Okinawa Prefecture.

The lookout tasked with being the first to spot and warn of an approaching train was not at the designated position just ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, U.S. media ...

While both stood on the podium to receive their Olympic gold medals, this time, Ryuichi Kihara kneeled down to give his pairs ...

Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, vowed that the ICC, “the last bastion for protecting the rule of ...

BANGKOK—The buzziest film in China this year was shot almost entirely in a southern Chinese dialect that most Chinese viewers ...