Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday stressed the importance of not imposing fees on passage through the Strait of Hormuz in phone talks with Iran's president, as the trade artery has ...

Yosakoi Festival started Monday in the western Japanese city of Kochi, drawing about 18,000 dancers in 197 teams from inside and outside Kochi Prefecture, organizers of the three-day event said.

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 ...

Police in Nagareyama City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested an 18-year-old Sri Lankan national on suspicion of murder, after he allegedly stabbed a 21-year-old Sri Lankan man with a knife. Police said ...

Police in Misaki town, Osaka Prefecture, on Sunday arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of stomping on his 80-year-old mother, with whom he lived, causing her death. Police said Yoshiki ...

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 ...

Honda Motor Co has developed a robotic hand capable of highly dexterous movements, marking a return to robotics with a new industrial focus after retiring its once-iconic ASIMO humanoid robot. The ...

Typhoon No. 15, following an unusual path, is expected to hit Japan's main island of Honshu on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency forecast on Monday. Residents in the Kanto and southern Tohoku ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Japan were ‌ordered to evacuate and more than 500 flights canceled on Friday as slow-moving Typhoon No. 13 approached ‌the region to bring violent winds ...

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 ...

The British band Massive Attack said its members were detained by Singapore police and "isolated ‌and separately questioned" after the two performers raised a Palestinian flag at their concert in the ...

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.