More than 80% of school boards in Japan are not considering installing security cameras in classrooms as a countermeasure ...

In July, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike met with Guterres at the U.N. headquarters in New York and proposed the Japanese capital ...

A doctor from Mali and a Swiss-based nonprofit organization received a Japanese government medical prize named after Hideyo ...

Okinawa Shogaku clinched its maiden national high school baseball championship Saturday with a 3-1 victory over Tokyo's ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan and South Korea on Saturday agreed to steadily and significantly build bilateral ties based on the ...

A man in his 40s was arrested Saturday for allegedly unleashing a substance believed to be pepper spray in Tokyo's bustling ...

Iran said Friday its foreign minister spoke by phone with his French, German and British counterparts to avoid the ...

TOKYO -- Close to 90% of women in Japan want their partners to "know and understand" changes in their physical condition due ...

Voters in Taiwan are deciding Saturday whether to dismiss seven opposition members from the legislature and on a return to ...

Kazuma Okamoto hit a pair of solo home runs as the Yomiuri Giants beat the DeNA BayStars 4-1 on Saturday for their third ...

A mobile battery briefly caught fire on a moving shinkansen bullet train in central Japan on Friday, but the blaze was ...