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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Three Australian women were charged on Friday with slavery and terrorism offenses after they arrived home from Syria with ...

Police arrested a bus driver Thursday on suspicion of negligent driving after a crash on a Fukushima expressway killed a high school student the previous day, as investigators probe whether he was ...

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

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