SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of two types of new antiair missiles, state media said ...

The Fukui prefectural government issued 1.4 billion yen ($9.5 million) of public bonds titled the “Kyoryu Gakubu Oen Bond" ...

Told he had only three or four years to live, Ichiro Hatanaka decided to reach out to fellow sufferers of amyotrophic lateral ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

OSAKA—Two firefighters died and four others were injured after a fire broke out on Aug. 18 along the Dotonborigawa river in ...

While the family lived apart, Japan attacked the U.S. military base and airfields at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 1941.

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...

MANILA--Two Japanese men shot to death in the Philippines' capital here were targeted by a Japanese acquaintance who staged ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

Four years after swapping her pompoms for a chef’s knife, Masako Morishita earned one of the most prestigious accolades in ...

In a historic moment, Sho Miyake’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” has won the Golden Leopard at the 78th Locarno Film Festival, ...