SEOUL--North ‍Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch of long-range strategic cruise missiles on Sunday, which confirmed ...

The multi-vehicle pileup on the Kan-Etsu Expressway in Gunma Prefecture was a culmination of a series of separate accidents ...

BEIJING/TAIPEI--China staged live-fire drills around Taiwan on Monday, deploying troops, warships, fighter jets and artillery ...

The president of the Palestinian Authority expressed hope that Japan will recognize Palestine as a state and contribute to ...

A 5-year-old boy died after falling on an outdoor escalator at a ski slope here and getting his right arm caught in the ...

We live through words. At times our hearts leap with joy; at others we tremble with anger or sink into sorrow. Yet it is ...

Feeling a stronger commitment to peace, Princess Kako, second daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, ...

All lanes on the Kan-etsu Expressway linking Tokyo and Niigata Prefecture were open for traffic on Dec. 28, two days after 67 ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration has approved the initial budget proposal for next fiscal year, which includes a record 122.3 trillion yen ($782 billion) in general-account expenditures.

Undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue outpointed Alan David Picasso on Saturday to set up a potential ...

The first batch of locally brewed wines was sampled from among thousands of bottles aging in an underground passage at the ...

Some 750 years after the Kamakura Shogunate fended off foreign invasions of the Kyushu region, the ancient capital of ...