A Mainichi Shimbun survey of four-year women's universities across Japan has found that six schools now recognize transgender ...

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on ...

Japan posted a current account surplus of 2.83 trillion yen ($18 billion) in October, up 15.5 percent from a year earlier, ...

A severed head, arms and legs of a baby were found in a freezer at an adult entertainment business in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, ...

A 65-year-old man in this northern Japan city who was attacked by a bear before confining the animal inside his home in ...

Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center ...

A reading performance conveying voices from the Palestinian territory of Gaza, where Israeli attacks have continued despite a ...

This year's Nobel chemistry prize co-winner, Susumu Kitagawa, said Sunday that long-term support is vital for scientists to ...

Suguru Osako set a new Japanese record in the men's marathon after clocking 2 hours, 4 minutes, 55 seconds at the Valencia ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are "very shortly ...

Japan's real wages in October fell 0.7 percent from a year earlier, marking the 10th consecutive monthly decline, government ...

Chinese military aircraft locked radar onto Japanese Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets southeast of Okinawa's main island ...