The average retail gasoline price in Japan hit a record high of 190.80 yen per liter, reflecting higher crude oil prices amid the Iran war, industry ministry data showed Wednesday, a day before state ...

A 26-year-old man in Fukuoka has been arrested on suspicion of violating the anti-stalking law by posting defamatory comments about his 49-year-old ex-girlfriend. According to police, between December ...

The average price of land in Japan climbed for the fifth consecutive year amid a modest economic recovery, government data showed Tuesday. The nationwide average of land prices in all categories ...

Seiya Suzuki has a minor ligament strain in his right knee and will be evaluated this week before the Chicago Cubs decide whether the Japanese outfielder will go on the injured list, manager Craig ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, in phone talks with his Iranian counterpart Tuesday, called on Iran to stop all actions that threaten safe passage through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, ...

The Sendai District Court has sentenced a 22-year-old man to 21 years in prison for killing a 35-year-old nursery school teacher and abandoning her body at a beach last year. In the lay judge trial, ...

The Defense Ministry held an exhibition of missile launchers and other equipment Tuesday at a Ground Self-Defense Force garrison in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, ahead of a long-range missile ...

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against Cuba on Monday, saying he expected to have the "honor" of "taking Cuba in some form" and ‌that "I can do anything I want" with the ...

Shigeaki Mori, the survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing ‌whom former U.S. President Barack Obama embraced during a historic visit to the city in ‌2016, has died at 88, ⁠Jiji Press reported on ...

A high school student and a ship skipper died Monday after two boats capsized in waters near a construction site for a controversial U.S. military base relocation in the Japanese island prefecture of ...

At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a sharp ...

AI-created videos circulating on Elon Musk's X depict American soldiers captured by Iran, an Israeli city in ruins, and US embassies ablaze -- a surge of lifelike deepfakes despite a policy crackdown ...