The risk of person-to-person transmission of hantaviruses in Japan would remain low even if infected passengers from a cruise ...

Japan's real wages in March rose 1.0 percent from a year earlier for the third straight monthly increase, reflecting firms' ...

Key lawmakers of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are set to launch a new group to promote the national security and ...

Global perceptions of the U.S. have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse ‌than views of Russia, an ...

The Nikkei stock index ended at a new record high above the 62,000 line on Thursday, posting its largest-ever single-day ...

Abdoulaye Diarra was beaten and burnt alive near his home in the Malian capital, wrongly accused of being a "terrorist" ...

Chiba prefectural police have arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage girl in an apartment. Police said Makoto Takayanagi, a company executive, is accused of ...

Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Group Corp reported a 3.4% drop in its annual profit but projected Friday a ...

The U.S. trade court on Thursday ruled against President Donald Trump's latest 10% global tariffs, finding they were not ‌justified under a 1970s trade law. However, the court only blocked the levy on ...

Police in Mikasa City, Hokkaido, have arrested a 68-year-old man on suspicion of killing his mother. Police said Hiroaki Kashima is accused of strangling his mother, Sumiko Kashima, in a car parked in ...

When Vladimir Osechkin wants to take his children to school or go to the supermarket, he calls the police. The Russian ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in the central Japanese prefecture of Fukui said it halted its reactor Friday morning ...