The Japanese education ministry's human resources committee on July 30 broadly approved a plan to limit the recipients of ...

Four workers fell into a manhole Saturday during a sewage pipe inspection in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, with three ...

Railway operators in Japan are encouraging train drivers to wear sunglasses, aiming to improve driver health and ensure safer ...

Ito Mayor Maki Takubo has reversed her decision to resign amid allegations she falsified her academic credentials, and will ...

For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It ...

In a warning to Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday he's ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines ...

With Japan set to allow the emergency shooting of bears in populated areas from September, an insurance company has decided ...

Japan logged its hottest July for the third year in a row, with average temperatures 2.89 C above normal, the weather agency ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, erupted for a second straight day, sending a column of ...

Japan's weather agency said there is no tsunami threat to the country following a huge volcanic eruption on the Indonesian ...

Freddie Freeman homered for the second straight game and drove in three runs, Clayton Kershaw gave up five hits in six ...

Grand champion Hoshoryu has a fractured and dislocated left big toe, the Japan Sumo Association said Friday in announcing the ...