The stabbings at a McDonald's restaurant here that left a 15-year-old girl dead have sent shockwaves throughout the area, and ...

A person in their 50s who identifies themselves as neither male nor female filed a petition to the Kyoto Family Court on Dec.

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Tokyo stocks finished slightly lower Monday as investors grew cautious ahead of a Bank of Japan policy meeting later this ...

Workers at the Hiramatsu Seafoods Company factory in the city of Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, are busy making sweet simmered ...

Former New York Yankee and free agent Masahiro Tanaka is on the radar of the Yomiuri Giants in the Central League, a source ...

At Damascus' international airport, the new head of security -- one of the rebels who marched across Syria to the capital -- ...

Police continued their search on Monday for a man believed responsible for the stabbing death of a 15-year-old junior hi ...

Israel said Sunday it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorated over the war in Gaza, where Palest ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday met with Akie Abe, the widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...

South Korean law enforcement authorities will request that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appear for questioning this we ...

A Cambodian technical trainee on Monday filed a damages suit against a manager at a strawberry farm north of Tokyo, alleging ...