The average price of rice in Japan has declined for the first time in 18 weeks. The agriculture ministry says a 5-kilogram ...

Russia launched drone attacks across Ukraine on Monday, ignoring calls for a 30-day ceasefire by four major European powers ...

People at an event in Tokyo have remembered renowned Japanese poet Tanikawa Shuntaro, who died last November at the age of 92 ...

A lawyer representing former Japanese television personality Nakai Masahiro has disputed a report by an independent panel ...

Hamas said after talks with the United States that the male US citizen will be released on Monday. He is one of the fifty-nine hostages believed to remain in captivity. Hamas called the move part of ...

The United States and China say they have agreed to cut each other's additional tariffs by 115 percentage points. Some of the ...

The latest NHK opinion poll shows the approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's Cabinet is 33 percent.

Indian and Pakistani military operations chiefs are expected to hold talks Monday after a weekend ceasefire deal was reached.

Ballot counting is underway in the Philippines' midterm elections amid an acrimonious standoff between President Ferdinand ...

The official campaign period for next month's presidential election has kicked off in South Korea, with candidates making ...

Residents of a southwestern Japanese island have welcomed back a Buddhist statue that was stolen from a local temple and found in South Korea.

Japanese police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of fatally stabbing an elderly woman on a street in Chiba City, near Tokyo.