Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received a medical checkup on Wednesday for the second time in five days, amid ...

A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan, hit by the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, was restarted Wednesday after a ...

South Korea's military said it will hold a three-day joint exercise with the United States and Japan starting on Wednesday, ...

A 26-year-old man has been arrested for threatening and sexually assaulting a teenage boy in a park in Kamisukawa, Tochigi Prefecture. According to police, Kenta Shibahara, a painter from Moka, ...

A Chinese national was arrested Tuesday for allegedly scamming a 71-year-old woman in eastern Japan out of 809 million yen, in what marks the largest reported loss in a social media-based investment ...

The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven is considering going private by buying back its own shares in a bid to avoid a takeover by ...

Asian stocks on Wednesday followed Wall Street lower as momentum cooled for the torrid “Trump trade” that swept U.S. markets ...

Airlines in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore cancelled flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of ...

A woman wearing a kimono walks through numerous torii gates in Fushimi Inari-Taisha shrine, Kyoto.

Japanese technology group SoftBank swung back to profitability in the April-September period, boosted by positive results in ...

Officials in southern China ramped up security on Wednesday at the site of one of the country's deadliest mass-casualty ...

A man broke into a house in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and then fled after being seen by the resident who was at home. According to police, the incident occurred at around 3 p.m. Monday in ...