A bear climbed aboard a moored tuna fishing boat via its gangway and appeared to have dozed off before falling overboard and disappearing into the sea in the northern Japan city of Shiogama, Miyagi ...

A member of Japan's pop idol group timelesz was sent to prosecutors on Sunday for alleged assault of a woman in Tokyo. Shuto Inomata, 25, has been arrested for repeatedly hitting the 26-year-old woman ...

Warnings of a typhoon partly explained why the Asian Games opening ceremony in Nagoya took place in front of thousands of ...

Chiba University Prof Makoto Ichikawa. A growing number of restaurants have introduced a reserved ticketing system that allows customers to gain priority entry through paying an extra fee. Such a ...

Star Wars” creator George Lucas called his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art a “temple to the people's art” and a project that ...

Russia’s liberal opposition Yabloko party said that one of its election observers lost consciousness while being arrested by ...

Governor-elect of Okinawa Prefecture Genta Koja said Saturday that bomb threats were sent to his children's schools and the prefectural office, demanding he decline the post. The governor-elect said ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at critics of artificial intelligence and data centers, saying he would ...

The president of the Olympic Council of Asia acknowledged Saturday that politics — in the form of a welcoming ceremony involving Taiwan — had already entered into the Asian Games. He did not sound ...

The Czech Republic beat the United States to reach the Davis Cup Final 8 after U.S. Open finalist Ben Shelton and Learner ...

All Nippon Airways Co has unveiled its second decorated aircraft marking the 30th anniversary of the popular "Pokemon" game ...

Financial assets held by households in Japan rose to a record 2,519 trillion yen at the end of June, up 11.0 percent from a year earlier, lifted by rising stock prices, the Bank of Japan said. By type ...