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

Yuzuru Hanyu says the desire to support his native northeastern Japan in its recovery from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami catastrophe was a major motivating factor in his decorated figure skating career.

The Japanese Cabinet has approved a basic policy for a new scheme to replace the controversy-plagued foreign trainee program, explicitly stating it is designed to attract overseas laborers to tackle ...

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

A woman has died after being stabbed on a street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, with a man in his 40s arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder, according to police.

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.

British business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said in a recent interview in Tokyo that there is "exceptional potential for the future" of defense collaboration with Japan as the two countries progress ...

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 ...

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

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