Japan's health insurance system, praised globally for supporting one of the world's longest-lived populaces, ensures medical ...

An elderly woman was found collapsed on a street in Chiba near Tokyo on Sunday afternoon and was later confirmed dead at a ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu made a confident start Sunday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a push-out victory against ...

Panasonic Holdings Corp. says it will lay off 10,000 domestic and overseas employees, or just under 5 percent of its total ...

The Tokyo government has begun work to redevelop a two-kilometer expressway which encircles the capital's Ginza shopping ...

Three Chinese nationals were arrested for operating a poker gambling den in Tokyo, police said, suspecting they made over 60 ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it ...

The United States and China on Saturday made "great progress" in high-level trade talks after discussing many issues in a ...

Representatives of U.S. forces in Japan and Okinawa authorities hold their first meeting Friday under a new forum to discuss ...

While too young to compete at next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Japanese figure skating prodigy Taiga Nishino has ...

Over 150 years ago, in 1867, the United States acquired Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Since then, it has not expanded ...