Shuichiro Hoshi, a professor of criminal law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. One of two Chilean men indicted for stealing watches from a store in Tokyo and also stealing luxury watches from a Tokyo ...

Saitama Prefectural Police have arrested a 23-year-old former childcare worker from Tokorozawa City on suspicion of sexually assaulting an elementary school boy and recording indecent videos on his ...

Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting won a "monumental" Asian Games gold on Friday and said she was "grateful for making it through" ...

Taekwondo dates back more than 2,000 years, but on Friday at the Asian Games the Korean martial art stepped into a not-so-brave future where nobody gets hurt: virtual taekwondo. At a gymnasium about a ...

Raccoon damage is rising sharply across Japan, with agricultural losses nearing 700 million yen ($4.4 million) a year as the ...

Novak Djokovic survived a scare to beat outsider Bu Yunchaokete 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 in the second round of the China Open on ...

A fire broke out Friday at a one-story house in Mie Prefecture, and four bodies were discovered at the site, police and other authorities said, with four children feared to have failed to escape.

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force said it began recovery operations Friday for a U.S.-made long-distance surveillance drone that had crashed into the sea last month, as the country puts greater emphasis ...

Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for ...

Ukraine wants to cooperate with Japan on developing drone interception technology and other areas as Russia's attacks ...

About 400 schools in France are expected to remain ‌closed on Friday after student protests that began over education-related grievances escalated into violence in ‌some places. "There are a little ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the world was living through a dangerous moment and warned the West not to escalate ...