A 6-year-old boy drowned after he apparently fell into a reservoir near a park in Soja City, Okayama Prefecture, on Saturday. According to police, Saku Fujita disappeared at around 6 p.m. on Saturday ...

China said Monday it "firmly rejects" U.S. claims that it had violated a sweeping tariffs deal, as tensions between the two economic superpowers showed signs of ratcheting back up. Beijing and ...

Shops selling steaming snacks line the streets of Seoul's Daerim neighborhood, home to thousands of ethnic Chinese, some feeling the pressure from mounting anti-Beijing sentiment ahead of South ...

Japan's consumer affairs center has called on people grappling with soaring rice prices to beware of websites claiming to sell the staple at heavily discounted prices. The National Consumer Affairs ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of stealing video games from a bag left behind by an elementary school student playing in a park. Police said the suspect, Ryoichi ...

China on Saturday criticized as a "double standard" attempts to link the defense of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion - a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French ...

Police in Gyoda City, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 39-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempting to kill a police officer who had come to his home in answer to a 110 call. According to ...

An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California-based judge’s order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that the Department of Government ...

The Diet on Friday began its first deliberations in 28 years on legislation that would give married couples the option of keeping different surnames. The passage of any of the three bills submitted ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives flowers to Akie Abe, widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during their meeting at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday.

Navigating food labels in Japan can feel like decoding a secret language, even if you’ve been here for years. Once you finally figure out how to read Japanese food labels, there’s still that long list ...

The Japanese government has decided to complete the renovation of relatively large sewage pipes at risk of damage and corrosion due to aging by fiscal 2030, a source close to the matter said recently.