Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole here.

In a dramatic come-from-behind victory, ozeki Hoshoryu clinched his second championship on Jan. 26, virtually ensuring his ...

The chairman and president of Fuji Television Network Inc. will resign over the reported sexual misconduct scandal involving ...

NARA--A festival that involves setting fire to a grassy mountain slope was held at Mount Wakakusayama here to herald the ...

JAKARTA--The defense ministers of France and Indonesia agreed Friday to work more closely to maintain regional stability, ...

A former correctional officer offered a rare first-hand account of the execution of a death row inmate he participated in ...

OSAKA—An external review released by the city government here on Jan. 30 found that improved negotiations could have slashed ...

Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated high-speed rail technologies, it has made ...

MANILA--Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered on Friday to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if ...

Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers ...

The iconic Doctor Yellow, a brightly colored train that has patrolled the Shinkansen tracks for 24 years, arrived at Tokyo ...

TAIPEI--A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, ...