Japan's defense spending and related costs for fiscal 2025 are expected to total 9.9 trillion yen, equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product three years earlier, Defense Minister Gen ...

J-pop star Kenshin Kamimura pleaded not guilty to a charge of indecent assault before a Hong Kong court on Tuesday, after he was accused of assaulting a woman at a Hong Kong restaurant in March.

Wakayama Prefecture Governor Shuhei Kishimoto died in Wakayama City on Tuesday morning. He was 68. Kishimoto was found collapsed at the governor's official residence by his secretary at around 10:15 a ...

Police in Saitama City have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 15-year-old girl at the entrance to her apartment building on Monday night. According to police, the incident occurred ...

Asian benchmarks mostly rose Tuesday, echoing a rally on Wall Street after President Donald Trump relaxed some of his tariffs, for now at least, and as stress from within the U.S. bond market seemed ...

Chinese police in the northeastern city of Harbin have accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of launching "advanced" cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February, ...

The number of holidaymakers traveling domestically in Japan and abroad in the upcoming Golden Week holiday period starting late April is expected to drop 6.9 percent from a year earlier to 23.45 ...

The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, since the institution said Monday it won’t comply with the Trump ...

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring ...

U.S. President Donald Trump 's top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was ...

Finland defeated Switzerland 2-1 Monday for its second victory at the women’s ice hockey world championship. Ronja Savolainen scored a short-handed goal midway through the opening period and Michelle ...

Russia on Monday claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine's Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned ...