Police in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 20-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of of attempting to kidnap an elementary school girl by trying to take her into a toilet in the ...

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led ...

Floodwaters driven by torrential rains ground life in the Philippine capital to a halt on Tuesday with tens of thousands evacuated from their homes and at least two people believed missing. Schools ...

It’s a hot, sticky summer in Japan this year, and that’s actually a fitting description of pretty much every summer in Japan for the past few generations. But while high temperatures and high humidity ...

Japan's chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said Monday that he will aim for some kind of trade agreement with the United States by Aug 1, a deadline set by President Donald Trump to wrap up ...

Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern districts of the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah for the first time on Monday, an area where Israeli sources said the military believes hostages may be held.

You can win all kinds of things from crane games in Japan, from slices of cake to not-so-precious gemstones. So, it’s perhaps only mildly surprising that the National Police Agency issued a warning ...

Over half of Japanese public junior and senior high school students met official English proficiency milestones, but further progress is needed to reach the government's more ambitious targets, a ...

A 48-year-old man was found hanged in a park in Ami town, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sunday, and a 44-year-old woman was found dead inside a car in nearby parking lot. According to police, a passerby ...

The New Zealand government passed legislation on Wednesday to regulate the use of ground-based space infrastructure following concerns about foreign actors using it to harm national security.

A record 42 women won seats in Japan's House of Councillors election on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 35 set in the 2022 upper house vote. Women won 33.6 percent of the total 125 seats up ...

Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time. That changed after she ...