Police arrested a 27-year-old man Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder after the stabbing of a 21-year-old woman in Chitose on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, police said. The woman ...

Japan's national team has changed practice venues in Monterrey ahead of the World Cup after players encountered an uneven pitch marred by patches of dirt at their original training ground. The ...

An 88-year-old man driving a light passenger car was killed after his vehicle crashed into the wall of a house in Oita City on Monday, Police said the accident occurred at around 2 p.m. TV Asahi ...

RT Corp’s food-picking collaborative robot Foodly gives a demonstration at a food processing technology expo in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Typhoon Jangmi was moving north toward Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday after battering Okinawa the previous day, the weather agency said. Nine people had sustained minor injuries ...

Four people were attacked and injured by a bear in northeast Japan on Tuesday, with all sent to the hospital and conscious, according to the local police and fire department. At around 6:30 a.m., the ...

The Miyagino stable ceased to exist Thursday after the Japan Sumo Association made the transfer of its wrestlers to another stable permanent in the wake of an abuse scandal. The Miyagino stable, ...

Five people have died and two others were injured ‌on Monday after an explosion and fire on a South Korean production line for rocket propellant at a factory operated by ‌Hanwha Aerospace in the city ...

A 60-year-old man living in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, called 110 on Monday and said he had killed his 90-year-old mother’s visiting caregiver and then said he was going to kill himself. Police ...

A bus passenger suffered a knife wound to his face after a dispute with another passenger in Tokyo on Monday. The incident occurred at around 10:15 a.m. as the two men were getting off the bus at a ...

Typhoon Jangmi is forecast to bring heavy rain to western and eastern Japan along the Pacific coast this week, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Sunday, with airlines already cancelling flights.

Ukrainian drone strikes caused fires at more Russian oil facilities on Saturday, Russian officials said, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry. Authorities in ...