South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released Saturday after spending 52 days in detention over his brief imposition of ...

A Kurdish amateur football club in Japan has apologized to J-League first division team Urawa Reds for raising their team ...

A bullet train makes an emergency stop near a station in Tokyo after two cars decoupled, leading to a 3-hour suspension of ...

Japanese startup Dymon Co. said Saturday its ultra-compact, lightweight rover, which reached the Moon aboard a U.S. lander, will not proceed with its planned lunar exploration, bringing its mission to ...

The government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to Sapporo by eight years to March 2039, partly due to tunnel construction ...

The states parties of a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty on Friday adopted a declaration affirming the existential threat ...

Nagasaki University in southwestern Japan and a local systems development company have unveiled an artificial intelligence program that lets medical students practice interviews with virtual patients ...

Japan's figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu performed his ice show on Friday in his native Miyagi Prefecture, commemorating the 14th anniversary of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami that ...

U.S. President Donald Trump complains that his country's decades-old security treaty with Japan is nonreciprocal, as he steps ...

The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy over the freedom of Iwao Hakamata who spent more than four decades on death ...

Japanese figure skater Mao Shimada's feats on the junior circuit suggest she is ready to take on the world at senior level, ...

Some parts of Tokyo and its surrounding areas are expected to be hit by heavy snowfall at the weekend, the Japanese weather ...