Middle East tensions are driving up oil prices as Japan faces a tightening energy supply. This is boosting interest in ...

Police and emergency workers in the northern Philippines are searching for more than ten people believed to be trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building. Four people have been confirmed dead.

Sumo wrestler Wakatakakage said he is glad he has not given up sumo one day after winning a grand tournament for the second time. Wakatakakage beat a higher-ranked wrestler, Kirishima, in a playoff on ...

A crude oil tanker that passed through the Strait of Hormuz has arrived in Japan. It's the first Japanese-managed ship to have transited the key waterway since the start of the effective closure.

Tokyo's benchmark stock index hit the 65,000 mark on Monday for the first time on expectations for progress in talks between the US and Iran.

People flocked to Hong Kong's remote island of Cheung Chau on Sunday for a bun scrambling festival that dates back more than 100 years.

Japan has started giving divorced parents an option to share custody of their children. Up until now, only one parent was allowed to exercise parental rights. The change that takes place on Wednesday ...

North Korean media say the ruling Workers' Party will convene a plenary meeting of the Central Committee in late June. Monday's edition of the ruling party's newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported on the ...

Competitors in Hong Kong raced up a 14-meter bun-covered tower in a tradition that dates back more than a century. They vied to grab as many buns as possible in three minutes to be crowned king or ...

The US Secret Service has announced that a suspect died in a shooting incident near the White House on Saturday. They added ...

US President Donald Trump says he has instructed his representatives "not to rush into a deal" with Iran, as negotiations are ...

Hiroshima survivor Mori Shigeaki spent decades researching and identifying the 12 American airmen who died in the atomic bombing--even tracking down their kin.