Okamoto Tao, the first Japanese to win the Award for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, has said after returning to ...

The South Korean military says North Korea has fired multiple projectiles, including short-range ballistic missiles, toward ...

Japan's net external assets reached a record high of more than 561 trillion yen, or about 3.5 trillion dollars, at the end of ...

South Korea's defense ministry has unveiled its basic plan for developing nuclear-powered submarines. The plan calls for the ...

A demonstration experiment to see whether a drone can be used to drive away wild animals has been conducted in Tainai City, ...

Japan's Transport Minister Kaneko Yasushi says another vessel owned by a Japanese shipping company passed through the Strait ...

Japan's Prudential Life Insurance says it has set aside tens of millions of dollars to compensate customers affected by ...

US media outlets say the US military conducted what are described as "self-defense strikes" in southern Iran on Monday.

Injured Japanese soccer star Mitoma Kaoru has had successful surgery on his left hamstring. Mitoma, who plays for England's Brighton & Hove Albion, clutched his leg in a league match on May 9, fell to ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a member of a yakuza group on suspicion of abducting a woman with the intent of sending her ...

The number of children needing Japanese language support has nearly doubled in the last decade, and schools are struggling to ...

Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te is refusing to panic after the recent US-China summit, where President Xi Jinping warned of ...