The Japanese government said Tuesday it has updated its disaster risk plan in the hope of reducing the estimated death toll ...

BANGKOK - Thailand's Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from duty over a leaked ...

Japan logged its hottest June since records began in 1898 due to a warm air mass hovering over the archipelago and global warming, the weather agency said Tuesday.

A man in his 30s was fatally stabbed at a law firm office in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro area on Tuesday and the suspected ...

Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Tuesday began requiring rental go-kart service operators to register with it when they set up ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday complained that Japan is not importing enough American rice, expressing further ...

Mt. Fuji's climbing season commenced as the most popular trail opened Tuesday, with local authorities charging a doubled fee of 4,000 yen ($28) to ease overcrowding and the impact on the environment.

Mt. Fuji's climbing season commenced as the most popular trail opened Tuesday, with local authorities charging a doubled fee ...

Japan's four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka survived a challenging first-round encounter with Australian qualifier Talia Gibson at Wimbledon on Monday, bouncing back from a slow start to advance w ...

The average price of land in Japan rose 2.7 percent in 2025, the fourth straight year it has climbed and the fastest pace of ...

A same-sex partnership system in Japan first introduced by Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in 2015 is now available to 92.5 percent of ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan, with no tsunami alert issued, the weather agency said Monday.