Renowned Japanese singer-songwriter and actor Masaharu Fukuyama has acknowledged making sexual remarks to female employees of ...

Japan is using a large coast guard drone, the SeaGuardian, to monitor the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea amid repeated ...

ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- Amid record-breaking heat, a special "ice cake" filled with fruit was presented to "Popo," a 7-year-old ...

Sayoko Yamamoto, an 81-year-old resident of Hyogo Prefecture, has never seen her father. He was drafted to war in December ...

The operator of the Japanese convenience store chain Ministop said Monday it has suspended the sale of deli items at some ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his German counterpart Johann Wadephul agreed Monday to strengthen bilateral ...

Three Myanmar nationals in the Japanese capital have been served with fresh arrest warrants for allegedly killing a ...

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As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides ...

Three people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out Monday in a building located in Osaka's Dotombori district, one of ...

All trails around lakes in the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido fully ...

Yu Darvish surrendered four runs on two homers for the San Diego Padres as the Los Angeles Dodgers won 5-4 on Sunday to ...