A 30-year-old man who has been arrested for allegedly knifing a male staff member of the Fukuoka-based idol group HKT48 was ...

A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an ...

LONDON (Kyodo) -- Masuji Ibuse, the Japanese author of "Black Rain," a novel about lives affected by the Hiroshima atomic ...

The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump has conducted a military operation in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, ...

A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictmen t accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of running a ...

*Note: "Wan-bassador" is a play on the words "ambassador" and "wan-wan," the Japanese onomatopoeia for a dog's bark.

Foreign residents made up 9.5 percent of the people in their 20s in Japan in 2025, more than double the 4.1 percent in 2015, ...

Tokyo stocks soared over 3 percent Monday afternoon on buying fueled by heavyweight technology issues and exporters on a ...

Tokyo stocks surged over 2 percent Monday morning, the first trading day of 2026, lifted by the rise of the U.S. Dow Jones ...

North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un observed test-flights of hypersonic missiles and underscored the need to bo ...

HARBIN, China (AP) -- Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin.

A 243-kilogram (535-pound) bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at ...