The Japanese government recently launched an initiative it hopes will encourage foreign tourists to venture off the beaten ...

Only 12.5 percent of people in Japan plan to give chocolates to colleagues for Valentine's Day, as the culture of obligatory ...

The number of emergency dispatches by the Tokyo Fire Department last year exceeded 930,000, setting a new record for the ...

President Donald Trump on Monday removed the exceptions and exemptions from his 2018 tariffs on steel, meaning that all steel ...

Officials and federal officers turned away scores of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's cabinet approval rate rose 5 points from the previous month to 44% in a February 7-9 ...

Google on Monday changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" for those using its Maps platform inside the ...

A federal judge found Monday that the Trump administration hasn’t fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and ...

A coalition of labor unions filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal court to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing private ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas should release all hostages held by the militant group in Gaza by ...

A teacher at a South Korean elementary school has admitted to stabbing a seven-year-old girl who was found in cardiac arrest and later died in hospital, a police official said on Tuesday. The female ...

Police in Seika, Kyoto Prefecture, on Tuesday arrested a 27-year-old Swiss man who was wielding a knife on a train station platform. According to police, an employee at JR Hosono Station called 110 at ...