The introduction of an optional separate surname system in Japan, which would allow Japanese couples to choose whether to ...

A Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds earl ...

TOKYO -- Seven people including members of "Chinese Dragon," a loosely organized quasi crime syndicate, were arrested on Sept ...

A 23-year-old police officer in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido was arrested on the spot for allegedly ...

Mie Prefectural Police on Sept. 18 arrested a 32-year-old Filipino factory worker on suspicion of abandoning the body of a ...

North Korean state media reported Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised successful tests the previous day of a new ...

Tokyo stocks surged Thursday morning, led by exporters on a weaker yen after comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve chair ...

A shinkansen stopped on a route between Tokyo and northeastern Japan, the railway operator JR East said Thursday, with the ...

In late June as the sun beat down on Tokyo's Ginza district, nearly 50 people stood lined up outside an outlet selling ...

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold ...

Shohei Ohtani took a small step toward becoming Major League Baseball's first player with 50 home runs and 50 steals in a se ...

In September 1980, following the five consecutive nights of the hit American TV drama "Shogun," former U.S. Ambassador to ...