A 6-year-old boy drowned after he apparently fell into a reservoir near a park in Soja City, Okayama Prefecture, on Saturday. According to police, Saku Fujita disappeared at around 6 p.m. on Saturday ...

China said Monday it "firmly rejects" U.S. claims that it had violated a sweeping tariffs deal, as tensions between the two economic superpowers showed signs of ratcheting back up. Beijing and ...

Police in Nagasaki have arrested a 26-year-old man who works as a caregiver on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend, who is in her 20s. According to police, the incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m.

Exposure to wildfire smoke may increase lung cancer patients' risk of dying from their disease, particularly among non-smokers, but the effect may be mitigated by certain cancer treatments, according ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, his call to "drill baby drill" and especially a decision by OPEC+ to hike crude output quotas have oil prices trading at lows not seen since the COVID pandemic.

Ukraine said Sunday it destroyed Russian bombers worth billions of dollars as far away as Siberia, in its longest-range assault of the war as it geared up for talks on prospects for a ceasefire. In a ...

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's ...

Japan's parliament has enacted a law obliging 300 to 400 major firms to participate in a carbon emissions trading system that will be introduced in the fiscal year starting April 2026. The revised law ...

Shops selling steaming snacks line the streets of Seoul's Daerim neighborhood, home to thousands of ethnic Chinese, some feeling the pressure from mounting anti-Beijing sentiment ahead of South ...

Poles began voting Sunday in a decisive presidential runoff that could set the course for the nation’s political future and its relations with the European Union. The contest pits Warsaw Mayor Rafał ...

Japan's consumer affairs center has called on people grappling with soaring rice prices to beware of websites claiming to sell the staple at heavily discounted prices. The National Consumer Affairs ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of stealing video games from a bag left behind by an elementary school student playing in a park. Police said the suspect, Ryoichi ...