Twenty-eight countries, including Japan, as well as the European Union, have issued a joint statement calling for an ...

Investigators say a mobile battery that caught fire on a JR Yamanote Line train in Tokyo on Sunday had been subject to a ...

Scorching heat gripped Japan with temperatures exceeding 38 degrees Celsius in wide areas from western to northern areas on ...

A Bangladeshi air force jet crashed into a college campus on Monday in the capital Dhaka. At least 27 people are dead.

North Korean media say the country has begun building its third new-class destroyer, reportedly capable of carrying ballistic ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan says it will resume onsite surveys toward constructing a ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told a US media outlet that his country is open to indirect talks with Washington ...

Police in Tokyo say they have found that English proficiency test examinees involved in suspected group cheating had been ...

Weekly cases of whooping cough in Japan have hit a new high for the fourth straight week. The Japan Institute for Health ...

The US State Department says an employee of the Patent and Trademark Office who made a personal visit to China has been ...

Israeli forces have launched new ground operations in the central Gaza Strip. The attacks reportedly killed civilians and damaged the World Health Organization's facilities.

Government officials in Thailand say three soldiers have been injured by landmines, and they're pointing the finger at ...