Saitama prefectural police are questioning a 33-year-old Vietnamese man over the death of a 91-year-old woman whose body was found in a wooded area in Hanno City. The suspect was arrested on the night ...

Two men were injured Saturday in an explosion at an apartment building in Chiba Prefecture with one suffering burns over his entire body, according to the local fire department. The blast, which ...

The recent powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture has left residents reeling from the impact, with local people and foreign nationals in shelters helping each other to overcome their ...

The Japanese government will tap over 20 billion yen from its reserve funds to support areas hit hard by a massive earthquake in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto nearly a week earlier, Prime ...

More than eight years after Boeing organized the maiden flight of the 737 MAX 7, the aircraft has won certification, U.S. authorities announced Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading ...

Things just aren’t the way they used to be in Japan. It wasn’t too long ago that it used to be safe for a butterfly to flutter by down the street without worrying about being kidnapped and killed. Now ...

Whether you’re in Japan or overseas, social media is filled with all sorts of food hacks at the moment, but most of the time it’s about how to add things to enhance the flavor of something rather than ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that the United States had intervened jointly with Japan to support the yen, calling the move a "signal of friendship" that would financially benefit the U.S ...

Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police ...

Tokyo stocks rose Monday morning, after crude oil prices retreated on expectations that tensions in the Middle East would ease, while gains were trimmed on concerns over the profitability of ...

A National Guard officer carried out a secret second marriage to a woman he met while posted in Mongolia, using a government travel card and forged documents to facilitate the double life, U.S.