A Japanese doctor who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki has left for Norway to attend the Nobel Peace Prize events ...

A candidate supported by the Conservative Party of Japan, Hirosawa Ichiro, won the mayoral election in the city of Nagoya, ...

Ukraine's security authorities have shown media outlets what they say are fragments of a new intermediate-range ballistic ...

Tokyo police have decided to hire civilian computer specialists as temporary officers to fight increasing cybercrime.

US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for national security advisor says the incoming administration will work to end Russia ...

Japan's government plans to assist the labor-strapped parcel delivery industry by requiring that new high-rise condominiums ...

Sales at supermarkets in Japan fell in October as unseasonably warm weather slowed demand for autumn-and-winter clothing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting debt relief to those who enroll in the military. The move taken on ...

A memorial ceremony has been held to honor all those who worked at Japanese gold mines on Niigata Prefecture's Sado Island.

Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, has observed the 130th anniversary of its founding. Its leader says he intends to continue to seek to ease tensions with China, which have grown as ...

A group of Japanese researchers have developed a set of simple questions to detect Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive ...

Protesters in Paris have called for an end to violence against women ahead of a UN-designated day for that cause. The ...