Police on Thursday were looking for the driver of a car that plowed into a group of elementary school children on Wednesday afternoon, seriously injuring four of them, in Misato City, Saitama ...

A bag containing an inflammable signal flare tube fell from a U.S. military helicopter over the Motobu peninsula in northern Okinawa Prefecture in Japan on Tuesday, the local Defense Ministry bureau ...

The U.N. aviation agency blamed Russia Monday for the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine in 2014, leading to the deaths of 298 people. Australia and the Netherlands, the countries with most ...

Japan's health ministry is set to eliminate out-of-pocket payments associated with child delivery, possibly from April next year, to address the country's declining birthrate. One proposed approach in ...

Hiromasa Nakano, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, left, and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, make an administrative inspection by boat along the Nihonbashi River in Tokyo on Monday ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday furiously rejected ethics concerns over his plans to receive a jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One, saying it would be "stupid" not to accept such a gift. ...

In just a few weeks, it will be the rainy season in Japan, which marks the start of summer. From there on, the temperature will only start to rise. Staying cool isn’t just about comfort; it’s a ...

Japan's top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, could travel to Washington as soon as next week for a third round of trade talks with the U.S., two sources with knowledge of the plans told Reuters on ...

Holding an oversized carrot, a brawny, shirtless man promotes a supplement he claims can enlarge male genitalia -- one of countless AI-generated videos on TikTok peddling unproven sexual treatments.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday urged the country's anti-counterfeit task force to devise new ways to fight fake goods, trade frauds and smuggling, the government said in a ...

Inside one of South Korea's oldest semiconductor research institutes, the cleanrooms and workshops are calm and immaculate, but outside the Seoul National University campus, a chip storm is brewing.

A court in Paris on Tuesday found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in 2021 and handed him an 18-month suspended prison sentence, in a fall from grace for a ...