Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a 54-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 89-year-old mother at her home in the prefecture’s city of Isumi. Hideko Ishigami, a part-time worker from the ...

Rescuers are scouring mountains of rubble in search of survivors following Monday’s magnitude 7.4 quake.

India considers incidents along its disputed border with China “most serious” and “the state of the border affairs” will “reflect on the state of our larger bilateral ties,” the Ministry of External ...

As the clearest political heir to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces a defining question: Can she preserve Abe’s strategic vision while adapting it to a far more ...

One bank strategist argues that an international price comparison for the pork-and-rice dish — rather than burgers — gives a better sense of how the yen’s retreat feels.

The Ukrainian president also said there is evidence that Russia would exploit next month’s elections to proclaim a new mobilization to boost the numbers of fighting personnel.

World No. 2 Elena Rybakina came from a set down to defeat four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka on Tuesday to reach the WTA Toronto Masters semifinals, where she will face fourth-ranked Coco Gauff.

While Tehran and Oman may be nearing an agreement, it remains unclear how that would affect the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

The missile was believed to have fallen outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo said.

Hiroshi Okuda, who served as president and then chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died. He was 93. A lifetime Toyota employee, Okuda joined just as it began ...

Both airlines had raised the surcharges on the routes for tickets issued in July and August to a record ¥65,000 from ¥56,000 for May and June.

Technical wreck diver Kingo Wakasa, 56, is going against all odds to document the rusted hull of the USS Emmons destroyer on the seabed off northern Okinawa.