Education officials in two cities in Japan failed to respond appropriately to incidents of sexual violence among students, ...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- The Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament went from two unbeaten leaders to four with one loss on the seventh day, ...

A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

A freight train derailed in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Saturday, disrupting some passenger and commercial ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, his choice to head the Interior Department, ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

Disgruntled X users are again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before ...

Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk, according to a U.S. official, one in a series of steps that appeared aimed ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

Five foreign-capitalized companies are conducting surveys or exploratory drilling to develop gold mines in at least 42 ...

The 82-year-old son of a Japanese migrant to the Philippines, who had lived his entire life there as a stateless person, ...