Sanuki Manno Park in Kagawa Prefecture is famous for all sorts of flowers. And right now, about 450,000 nemophila "baby blue ...

Turkish police say they "neutralized" three assailants after a gunfight near the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul.

Cambodian authorities say they have detained eight foreigners who they allege were running online scams. They say five of the ...

Iran says a Malaysian ship has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, making it the first from the country to do so since the ...

Vietnam has elected Communist Party chief To Lam as state president, consolidating his political control with the country's two most powerful positions. The move could give him extra leverage to ...

A Japanese group representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has stressed the importance of an upcoming review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.

Japan's Environment Ministry says the number of injuries and deaths from bear attacks across the country reached an all-time ...

Japan's Diet has passed a record-high budget of over 122-trillion yen for the fiscal year through next March. The Upper House ...

A Pakistani national has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling stimulant drugs with an estimated street value of 14.3 ...

Police say five people fell when scaffolding about 40 meters high collapsed at a steel mill in Kawasaki City, near Tokyo.

Young Myanmar nationals fleeing military rule are now essential to Japan's understaffed care facilities. But the junta has ...

Japanese recyclers are using new methods to extract lithium, nickel, palladium and other rare metals from disused electronic ...