Much of Japan has sweltered under intense heat on Thursday, including the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, which ...

North Korean media say the nation's leader Kim Jong Un has left the country and crossed the border into China.

Japan's ruling coalition has lost its majority in the Upper House. Speaking to media on Sunday, Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru ...

A court in Tokyo has ordered a former external employee of NHK to pay about 75,000 dollars in damages to the public broadcaster. The Chinese national made unscripted remarks during a Chinese language ...

Police in the Philippines say suspects detained over the fatal shooting of two Japanese men in Manila told investigators that ...

People in Japan and around the world will be stopping to remember one of the darkest days in the country's history. Wednesday marks 80 years since an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima.