Japanese actor Hiroya Shimizu admitted to having cannabis at his home during the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo ...

A Mainichi Shimbun survey of four-year women's universities across Japan has found that six schools now recognize transgender ...

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 2.3 percent in the July-September period, revised down from an initially reported 1 ...

A severed head, arms and legs of a baby were found in a freezer at an adult entertainment business in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, ...

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top government spokesman on Monday dismissed as "baseless" China's claim that interference by ...

A reading performance conveying voices from the Palestinian territory of Gaza, where Israeli attacks have continued despite a ...

Japan posted a current account surplus of 2.83 trillion yen ($18 billion) in October, up 15.5 percent from a year earlier, ...

Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center ...

Japan's real wages in October fell 0.7 percent from a year earlier, marking the 10th consecutive monthly decline, government ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are "very shortly ...

Suguru Osako set a new Japanese record in the men's marathon after clocking 2 hours, 4 minutes, 55 seconds at the Valencia ...