Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is set to become Japan's next prime minister after winning the ruling Liberal ...

Five Dutch people who had been interned by the former Japanese military in the then Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) ...

More than 80% of 252 children under the age of 18 who were born and raised in Japan but do not have resident status due to ...

When she first heard about the evacuation warnings Israel was sending to residents of Lebanon, Aline Naser's thoughts ...

A 36-year-old man here has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sexual acts with two girls who were then 12, the ...

Red spider lilies are in full bloom and delighting visitors of Butsuryu-ji temple in the city of Uda, Nara Prefecture. The ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday its global production in August dropped 11.2 percent from a year earlier to 709,571 vehicles, ...

The yen jumped to the mid-143 range against the U.S. dollar Friday in Tokyo, after former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba won ...

In the high-stakes showdown between the world's richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Elon Musk blinked.

Shohei Ohtani singled in the go-ahead run in a five-run seventh-inning rally as the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their third ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly surged over 2 percent Friday afternoon, as exporters were boosted by speculation that economic ...

The Indiana Pacers on Thursday signed Japan men's national basketball team guard Keisei Tominaga to an Exhibit 10 contract ...