Powerful typhoon Kajiki has made landfall in central Vietnam. Local authorities have launched mass evacuations.

Officials in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, are trying to get the full picture of the damage brought by ...

A city in central Japan has drafted an ordinance seeking to limit people's use of smartphones and other devices to two hours ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is displaying on its website a map of bears found within its jurisdiction. The map shows ...

Japanese police have arrested a man on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman inside the elevator of a condominium in the ...

As the UN declares a famine in Gaza City, and Israel limits supplies by road, airdropped aid is often the only means of ...

A teenager in Nepal who conquered the world's 14 tallest peaks in just two years is dedicating his achievement to the Sherpa ...

Senior officials from Japanese police and prosecutors have apologized to the family of a man who was wrongly charged for ...

A Tokyo-based startup says it will issue the first stablecoin cryptocurrency pegged to the Japanese yen later this year.

A man in his 60s was injured in an apparent bear attack in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sunday. Our site uses ...

The Japanese and Kazakh foreign ministers have agreed to speed up the arrangement of a summit meeting of Japan and five Central Asian nations. The plan has been put on hold for the past year.

Israeli forces have conducted airstrikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa in retaliation for missiles fired towards Israel by ...