Philippine authorities serve an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against former President Rodrigo ...

All bullet train services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in northeast Japan were halted for around two hours after a person ...

Tokyo marks the 80th anniversary of a night of U.S. air raids during World War II that killed around 100,000 people amid ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly drops over 1,000 points, sinking below the 36,000 line for the first time since September, as selling continued on fears of a U.S. recession.

Japan marks 14 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked the country's northeast and triggered a nuclear crisis, with residents in one of the hardest-hit areas again reeling ...

A town that hosts the crippled Daiichi nuclear power plant is being swept up in Japan's tourism boom, with visitors from China and other countries eager to see areas impacted by the 2011 dis ...

North Korea fired multiple "unidentified" ballistic missiles, the South Korean military said Monday. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military spotted the ballistic missiles at around 1:50 ...

Japanese trade minister Yoji Muto meets with his U.S. counterparts to seek exemptions from new tariffs that President Donald Trump plans to impose on steel, automobiles and other imports, but he did ...

Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi bounced back from his normal hill seventh-place finish to claim third in the individual ...

Japan's real wages fell 1.8 percent in January from a year earlier, the first drop in three months, due to higher food and ...

Japanese firms are feeling the most acute shortage of full-time workers since the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than half of ...

New yokozuna Hoshoryu blows away former sekiwake Wakatakakage at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament for his first victory since earning promotion to the sport's top rank.