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A Japanese white-eye pecks at a plum flower at Kameido Shrine in Koto Ward, Tokyo, during the plum blossom festival on Monday.

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old male friend on a street on Monday morning.Th...

The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on...

Mina Tanaka scored a second straight brace as Japan delivered another impressive performance at the SheBelieves Cup, defeating Colombia 4-1...

A four-year-old boy and his father who is in his 30s are in a critical condition after falling into a river in Akiruno City, Tokyo, on Sunda...

On February 22, roughly a week after the date when humans show their affection for each other on Valentine’s Day, humans get to show their a...

German voters head to the polls on Sunday, with the conservatives the strong favorites after a campaign rocked by a far-right surge and the...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, spa...

Japan's Mari Fukada competes during the women's World Cup slopestyle snowboard event in Calgary, Alberta, on Saturday.

Australia accused China on Saturday of failing to give satisfactory reasons for what it called inadequate notice of a live-fire drill in wat...

Before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would resign, his Liberal Party was headed for an electoral wipeout, but polls sh...

Gold medalists Riku Miura, left, and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan carry their national flag during the victory ceremony for the pairs free skatin...

Nissan shares surged 11 percent Friday after a report said a Japanese group including a former prime minister plans to ask U.S. electric veh...

For the last three years, China has repeatedly signaled a willingness to act as a peacemaker in the war in Ukraine.There were rounds of shu...

In an ice hockey grudge match of border rivals fueled by political tensions, "51st state" Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in overtime...

Billionaire Elon Musk appeared at a conservative gathering outside Washington on Thursday waving a chainsaw in the air, showing openness to...

Paulo Dybala scored twice as Roma beat Porto on Thursday to clinch a place in the last 16 of the Europa League, while Ajax clawed through in...

The world's richest man Elon Musk got into a heated row Thursday with a Danish astronaut who criticized the tech billionaire's claim that fo...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, right, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi sit at the start of thei...

Japan's trade minister is arranging a visit to the United States in coming weeks to seek exemptions from President Donald Trump's tariffs, l...

Dozens of false killer whales stranded on a remote beach in the Australian state of Tasmania will be euthanized after bad weather and the is...

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared at a Seoul court on Thursday for the first hearing of his criminal trial over insur...

The United States is set to cut the size of its diplomatic mission in China by up to 10%, the South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday...

Since the end of the COVID pandemic, articles have been appearing sporadically in the tabloid press about Japanese females who embark on sho...

Japan's Hana Yoshida performs during the women's short program competition at the Figure Skating Road to 26 Trophy, in Milan, Italy, on Wedn...