Police have obtained an arrest warrant for the mother of a 12-year-old Thai girl who was illegally forced to work at a ...

A railway company employee, aspiring to be a train driver, maneuvered trains with passengers onboard for a total of 16 ...

Japan just recently observed the advent of its first female prime minister in its constitutional history. It is of much ...

Amid nationwide efforts by Japanese police to crack down on anonymous and loosely organized criminal groups known as ...

The Beijing high court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison term for a former senior editor at a major Chinese newspaper ...

Coordinated terrorist attacks turned Paris into a theater of blood and calamity 10 years ago Thursday, with gunfire on cafe ...

The Japanese government raised its gasoline subsidy by 5 yen ($0.03) to 15 yen per liter on Thursday as a temporary measure ...

New sekiwake Aonishiki suffered his first defeat at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Thursday to ensure yokozona Onosato ...

A teacher at a private junior high school in Tokyo has been arrested on suspicion of sharing photos of women in their ...

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto finished third in voting for the National League Cy Young Award on ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher Thursday, as the end of the prolonged U.S. government shutdown helped ease concerns about the world ...

The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven democracies on Wednesday raised alarm over China's military buildup ...