Western Pacific nations are unlikely to meet the United Nations target of reducing premature deaths from lifestyle-related ...

Rui Nakayama, left, and Hana Shimizu, 20-year-old college students, sit along the Sumida River as the moon shines behind ...

Japan racked up a trade deficit of 294.3 billion yen in September, according to Finance Ministry data released Thursday, as ...

As the number of foreign tourists to Japan soars to record highs, so to do the number of overseas travelers caught behaving ...

A Georgia judge has declared that seven new election rules recently passed by the State Election Board are “illegal, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent an offering to Yasukuni Shrine, his office said on Thursday, drawing criticism ...

Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a ...

North Korea confirmed that it has blown up sections of roads and railways leading to South Korea, calling it a "hostile state ...

Among the Group of Seven nations, Japan has consistently maintained the highest percentage of people over age 65 who still ...

Japan's ruling party may struggle to retain a majority in the Oct 27 House of Representatives election in the wake of slush ...

British singer Liam Payne, a former member of the best-selling pop group One Direction, died Wednesday aged 31 after falling ...

Police in Yokohama are investigating the death of a 75-year-old man whose body was found in his home on Wednesday. Police said the man, Kanji Goto, had bruises all over his body and his hands and feet ...