Students interviewing for graduate jobs in Japan continue to be sexually harassed by recruiters, highlighting a failure of attempts to eradicate the problem and the power imbalance that endures ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was released Saturday after spending 52 days in detention over his brief imposition of ...

Japanese startup Dymon Co. said Saturday its ultra-compact, lightweight rover, which reached the Moon aboard a U.S. lander, will not proceed with its planned lunar exploration, bringing its mission to ...

The government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to Sapporo by eight years to March 2039, partly due to tunnel construction ...

A bullet train makes an emergency stop near a station in Tokyo after two cars decoupled, leading to a 3-hour suspension of ...

The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy over the freedom of Iwao Hakamata who spent more than four decades on death ...

A Kurdish amateur football club in Japan has apologized to J-League first division team Urawa Reds for raising their team ...

Nagasaki University in southwestern Japan and a local systems development company have unveiled an artificial intelligence program that lets medical students practice interviews with virtual patients ...

Japan's figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu performed his ice show on Friday in his native Miyagi Prefecture, commemorating the 14th anniversary of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami that ...

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Some parts of Tokyo and its surrounding areas are expected to be hit by heavy snowfall at the weekend, the Japanese weather ...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Friday warned Japan not to interfere in affairs related to Taiwan, saying that would only ...