Shares mostly retreated in Asia on Wednesday after U.S. stocks hit all-time highs, lifted by expectations of fat corporate earnings.

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

All Seven-Eleven outlets in India have closed, reducing the number of countries and territories where the convenience store chain operates to 18.

A scientific research organization is warning that using diabetes medications to lose weight poses potential side effects and health risks.

Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday and U.S. futures advanced after shares rose to near a record close on Wall Street.

Three deaths in flooded underpasses in Chiba and Fukushima prefectures have prompted new safety measures, including barriers ...

The lush grasses at Ozegahara, the mountain marshland spanning the borders of Gunma, Fukushima and Niigata prefectures, have ...

On a recent cold winter’s night, a family here faced off with terrifying house guests--massive ogre-like figures with broad, toothy maws and straw-covered bodies.

INTERVIEW/ Ex-interrogator recalls life inside Assad’s infamous torture prisons ...

1st emergency shooting OK’d in Tokyo after bear caught in trap ...

HIROSHIMA--Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his ...

The government is trying to cool diplomatic tensions after China protested Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s suggestion that Japan might use force along with the United States in the event of a Taiwan ...