An elderly woman was found with a knife in her neck outside a community center in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, on Monday morning. According to police, a passerby called 119 at around 10 a.m.

An Australian state government is banning the sale of machetes after a violent gang fight in a suburban shopping mall injured a young man. Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan announced Monday the ban on ...

Helicopters were being used on Sunday to drop animal feed to farmers in Australia's New South Wales state stranded by floods that have killed five and isolated tens of thousands in the country's ...

North Korea has detained shipyard officials responsible for a recent major accident during the launch of a new warship, state media said on Sunday. The failed launch that crippled the 5,000-tonne ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threw his support behind a new "partnership" between U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel, sending the American firm's share price skyrocketing on hopes of an end ...

Police in Kunitachi, Tokyo, have arrested an 82-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 82-year-old husband by strangling him at their home. According to police, Emiko Kurokawa is accused of ...

Ukraine’s capital came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack early Saturday with explosions and machine gun fire heard throughout the city, forcing many Kyiv residents to take shelter ...

Taiwan has lifted a restriction on the age of cattle for Japanese beef imports, a measure imposed in the wake of a 2001 mad cow disease outbreak in Japan, the Japanese farm ministry said Friday. The ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that he had again pressed U.S. President Donald Trump on tariffs, in a phone call ahead of fresh talks on easing the levies. Japan, a key U.S. ally ...

A third-generation ethnic Korean resident of Japan on Thursday sued a Tokyo hotel for refusing her a room after she declined to present a passport or residence card at check-in -- identification she ...

Japan's monthly average real wages fell 0.5 percent in the fiscal year ended March, marking the third consecutive yearly decline, government data showed Thursday, as pay growth continued to lag behind ...

FBI and police investigators on Thursday pored over apparent writings and political affiliations of a man arrested as the lone suspect in the fatal shooting of a pair of Israel embassy aides outside ...