An elderly woman in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, has scared off an intruding wild bear with a scream.

An explosion at an aerospace company factory in South Korea has killed five people and injured two others. Fire officials ...

Police in Tokyo are stepping up efforts to eliminate groping and other forms of sexual harassment on trains ahead of summer, ...

Japanese crested ibises were released into the wild in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture on the country's main island of ...

An annual Japanese pop culture convention in Dusseldorf, Germany, has drawn thousands of anime and manga fans, many arriving ...

US President Donald Trump reportedly wants the draft of a memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran amended. Trump ...

China's Coast Guard says it has conducted patrols in waters east of Taiwan, and has criticized Japan and the Philippines for ...

Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group says it will spend as much as 75 billion euros, or about 87 billion dollars, to build AI ...

People in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the Japanese city of Kyoto have held a singing exchange event to express their ...

People in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, have taken part in a culinary event featuring "nagashi-somen," or cold noodles that ...

People who litter on streets or in parks and other places are to be fined in a central Tokyo ward as part of its campaign to ...

The Japanese government says it will launch a probe into whether some steel products from China, South Korea and Taiwan are imported at unfairly low prices, therefore hurting Japanese competitors. The ...