The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led ...

Police in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 20-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of of attempting to kidnap an elementary school girl by trying to take her into a toilet in the ...

Ecuador on Sunday extradited to the United States the leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang who relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons to do business. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname ...

Floodwaters driven by torrential rains ground life in the Philippine capital to a halt on Tuesday with tens of thousands evacuated from their homes and at least two people believed missing. Schools ...

Masahiro Iwasaki, a political science professor at Nihon University, commenting on Sunday's upper house election results.

Japan's chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said Monday that he will aim for some kind of trade agreement with the United States by Aug 1, a deadline set by President Donald Trump to wrap up ...

It’s a hot, sticky summer in Japan this year, and that’s actually a fitting description of pretty much every summer in Japan for the past few generations. But while high temperatures and high humidity ...

Japan's ruling coalition is certain to lose control of the upper house in Sunday's election, public broadcaster NHK reported, an outcome that further weakens Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's grip on ...

Over half of Japanese public junior and senior high school students met official English proficiency milestones, but further progress is needed to reach the government's more ambitious targets, a ...

A 26-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son were found floating in the sea at a fishing port in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, on Saturday. They were taken to hospital where they were both pronounced ...

A 48-year-old man was found hanged in a park in Ami town, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sunday, and a 44-year-old woman was found dead inside a car in nearby parking lot. According to police, a passerby ...

A record 42 women won seats in Japan's House of Councillors election on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 35 set in the 2022 upper house vote. Women won 33.6 percent of the total 125 seats up ...