@TokyoLiving, as she's under 16 according to the article, by law it was not a consensual act. Japan's age of consent is 16, ...

Nearly 50 percent of Japanese think the country's Self-Defense Forces should stay at their current scale and capabilities, a government survey showed Friday, at a time when Tokyo plans to review ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 44-year-old man who was his superior at work. Police said Masahiro Yamanaka has admitted to killing Akihiro Kawashima at his ...

Japan plans to allow police and the Self-Defense Forces to access and neutralize adversarial servers from Oct 1, in preparation for the full-scale launch of an "active cyber defense" system designed ...

Hard hat-wearing rescue workers and backhoes dug through rubble in search of survivors on Saturday in the shadow of a mountain of garbage that buried dozens of landfill employees in the central ...

North Korea's military accused South Korea of flying drones across the border between the nations this week, warning Saturday that South Korea will face consequences for its “unpardonable hysteria.” ...

Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave ...

President Donald Trump's focus on the brazen U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is frustrating some White House aides and Republican lawmakers, who want him to address economic and ...

Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland, in what Kyiv's European allies on Friday described as an attempt to intimidate them ...

President Donald Trump on Friday called on oil executives to rush back into Venezuela as the White House tries to quickly secure $100 billion in investments to fix the country's neglected ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting needy children and their families ...

The Washington National Opera announced Friday that it had decided to end its arrangement with the Kennedy Center in the nation's capital, though it said it was hoping for an “amicable transition.” ...