A city mayor in western Japan has had his driver's license suspended for 90 days for driving well above the speed limit on an expressway.

Japan's transport ministry has come up with draft guidelines aimed at reducing long waiting lines at women's toilets at stations and commercial facilities.

An art exhibition in Tokyo is giving female Japanese artists some of the recognition they deserve. We focus on the ...

In Nepal, final results released Thursday show a political party backed strongly by young voters pulled off a landslide victory in last week's general election.

As a teenager, Oguni Yuka watched as her grandparents' home was destroyed in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami ...

Japan's population is aging, and millions suffer from dysphagia-they find it difficult to chew and swallow food. Nutritionist ...

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shia Muslim group, and the Israeli military have exchanged strikes. The attacks took place in ...

Japan's Lower House has passed a draft budget bill for the next fiscal year beginning in April. At 122 trillion yen, or about 765 billion dollars, it's the biggest ever. The budget has now been sent ...

Japanese snowboarder Oguri Daichi has clinched the silver medal in the men's banked slalom SB-LL1 at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games. The SB-LL1 class is for athletes with significant ...

The Japanese government is taking measures to ease the impact of rising crude oil prices on the economy. But there is not much it can do over the longer term.

A major Japanese trading house says that it has reached a basic agreement with an Australian resource company to develop new rare earth mines.

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have held a special videoconference to discuss disruptions stemming from the Middle East crisis. The Philippines, which is chairing the ...