A heated exchange broke out in front of a mosque in this southwest Japan city in September after members of a conservative ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a ...

Tokyo stocks ended mixed Monday, as heavyweight technology shares fell on concern over returns on huge investments in ...

A victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II has been identified as a 13-year-old girl through DNA testing ...

Maki Takubo, the former mayor of this central Japan city who was toppled by the municipal assembly over academic fraud ...

The Japanese government has launched a new department aimed at improving fiscal efficiency. It has been dubbed ...

Popular twin pandas at a zoo in Tokyo are set to be returned to China in late January, leaving none in Japan for the first ...

The Geminids, one of the three major meteor showers and the most prolific in the year, peaked on the night of Dec. 14-15.

Confusion and anger are spreading among students and their parents after university entrance exam prep school SS Gijuku ...

A new glass-walled giraffe exhibition room was unveiled at Obihiro Zoo in the city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, on December 6. The ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country's bid to join NATO in exchange for ...

Keeping workers motivated is an inescapable management challenge, and that is just as true in Japan as anywhere. But when the ...