The Islamic group Hamas has released a video that it says shows a 19-year-old woman who has been held in the Gaza Strip since ...

People visiting a zoo in western Japan have had the opportunity to touch a snake, the Oriental zodiac symbol for 2025.

South Korean investigators are still unable to execute a detention warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol that is set ...

A media outlet in Ukraine says the country is estimated to have lost control of more than 3,600 square kilometers of territory in 2024, with Russian forces seizing a number of settlements in the ...

Many places from northern to western Japan experienced frigid temperatures on Sunday morning, with central Tokyo recording a sub-zero temperature, its coldest of the season.

Families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea were forced to bring in another new year without their loved ones at home. They are urging the Japanese government to hold a bilateral summit with ...

Players in colorful costumes have staged an ancient ball-kicking game called "kemari" as part of a New Year ritual at a Shinto shrine in Kyoto.

This year's first auction of the winter delicacy fugu, or blowfish, has been held in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, ...

Multiple US media outlets say President Joe Biden has decided to officially block Japan's Nippon Steel from purchasing US ...

A Japanese expert on US government policy says blocking the buyout of US Steel by Nippon Steel could cause a US national ...

A winter pressure pattern and a cold air mass are bringing heavy snow to parts of northern Japan. Large accumulations are ...

US investigative authorities say the man who rammed a vehicle into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, ...