Family cover-ups and media silence helped enable showbiz guru and sexual deviant Johnny Kitagawa to abuse perhaps hundreds of ...

The National Police Agency is reviewing the “very easy” procedure of converting foreign driver’s licenses into Japanese ones ...

Shigeto Fujiwara is one of the dwindling number of World War II veterans who are still around to share their battlefield ...

A smelting furnace exploded Sunday at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 13 ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast have signed a formal ...

The Liberal Democratic Party’s parliamentary group in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly said on Jan. 23 that more than half of ...

In a hugely significant policy shift for pacifist Japan, the government approved revisions that will allow for the export of ...

A rather isolated community of large palatial buildings is nestled in a mountainous area of Gapyeong, Gyeonggi province, ...

The government officially decided on its basic energy plan at a Feb. 18 Cabinet meeting, outlining a mid- to long-term policy ...

The U.S.-based company that created ChatGPT plans to soon provide its latest artificial intelligence model--with enhanced ...

Tokyo police have made arrests over a drunken driving joyride in an illegally modified vehicle disguised as an unmarked police car, complete with a flashing red light and a siren.

Japan’s most decorated Winter Olympics athlete Miho Takagi may soon be adding the nation’s People’s Honor Award to her ...